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COMPLEXITY
2004
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13 years 10 months ago
On the convergence of a factorized distribution algorithm with truncation selection
nical Abstract Optimization is to find the "best" solution to a problem where the quality of a solution can be measured by a given criterion. Estimation of Distribution A...
Qingfu Zhang
GECCO
2008
Springer
152views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 12 months ago
Designing EDAs by using the elitist convergent EDA concept and the boltzmann distribution
This paper presents a theoretical definition for designing EDAs called Elitist Convergent Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (ECEDA), and a practical implementation: the Boltzm...
Sergio Ivvan Valdez Peña, Arturo Hern&aacut...
SIGMOD
1997
ACM
134views Database» more  SIGMOD 1997»
14 years 3 months ago
Scalable Parallel Data Mining for Association Rules
One of the important problems in data mining is discovering association rules from databases of transactions where each transaction consists of a set of items. The most time consu...
Eui-Hong Han, George Karypis, Vipin Kumar
GECCO
2009
Springer
124views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Black-box optimization benchmarking for noiseless function testbed using an EDA and PSO hybrid
This paper benchmarks an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA) and Particle Swarm Optimizer (PSO) on noisefree BBOB 2009 testbed. The algorithm is referred to as EDA-PSO and ...
Mohammed El-Abd, Mohamed S. Kamel
GECCO
2009
Springer
117views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
BBOB-benchmarking a simple estimation of distribution algorithm with cauchy distribution
The restarted estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) with Cauchy distribution as the probabilistic model is tested on the BBOB 2009 testbed. These tests prove that when using ...
Petr Posik
GECCO
2007
Springer
215views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
Addressing sampling errors and diversity loss in UMDA
Estimation of distribution algorithms replace the typical crossover and mutation operators by constructing a probabilistic model and generating offspring according to this model....
Jürgen Branke, Clemens Lode, Jonathan L. Shap...
CEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Bayesian inference in estimation of distribution algorithms
— Metaheuristics such as Estimation of Distribution Algorithms and the Cross-Entropy method use probabilistic modelling and inference to generate candidate solutions in optimizat...
Marcus Gallagher, Ian Wood, Jonathan M. Keith, Geo...
CEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
On the analysis of average time complexity of estimation of distribution algorithms
— Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA) is a well-known stochastic optimization technique. The average time complexity is a crucial criterion that measures the performance o...
Tianshi Chen, Ke Tang, Guoliang Chen, Xin Yao
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Theory-Driven Distribution Algorithm for Peer-to-Peer Real Time Streaming
—Many distribution algorithms have been proposed up to now for P2P real time streaming. However, due to the lack of basic theoretical results and bounds, common sense and intuiti...
Lorenzo Bracciale, Francesca Lo Piccolo, Dario Luz...
CEC
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
When is an estimation of distribution algorithm better than an evolutionary algorithm?
—Despite the wide-spread popularity of estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs), there has been no theoretical proof that there exist optimisation problems where EDAs perform...
Tianshi Chen, Per Kristian Lehre, Ke Tang, Xin Yao