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EC
2006
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An Extension of Geiringer's Theorem for a Wide Class of Evolutionary Search Algorithms
The frequency with which various elements of the search space of a given evolutionary algorithm are sampled is affected by the family of recombination (reproduction) operators. Th...
Boris Mitavskiy, Jonathan E. Rowe
EC
2008
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Texture Segmentation by Genetic Programming
We investigated image retrieval using texture segmentation by genetic programming. In this study, we are interested with two textures: sky and grass textures. Single-step texture ...
Andy Song, Victor Ciesielski
EC
2008
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Human Body Pose Estimation with Particle Swarm Optimisation
In this paper we address the problem of human body pose estimation from still images. A multi-view set of images of a person sitting at a table is acquired and the pose estimated....
Spela Ivekovic, Emanuele Trucco, Yvan R. Petillot
EC
2008
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Efficient Evaluation Functions for Evolving Coordination
Abstract-- This paper presents a method for creating evaluation functions that efficiently promote coordination in a multiagent system, allowing single-agent evolutionary computati...
Adrian K. Agogino, Kagan Tumer
EC
2008
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Automated Discovery of Local Search Heuristics for Satisfiability Testing
The development of successful metaheuristic algorithms such as local search for a difficult problems such as satisfiability testing (SAT) is a challenging task. We investigate an ...
Alex S. Fukunaga
EC
2008
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Multiobjective Immune Algorithm with Nondominated Neighbor-Based Selection
Nondominated Neighbor Immune Algorithm (NNIA) is proposed for multiobjective optimization by using a novel nondominated neighbor-based selection technique, an immune inspired oper...
Maoguo Gong, Licheng Jiao, Haifeng Du, Liefeng Bo
EC
2008
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Tracking Moving Optima Using Kalman-Based Predictions
The dynamic optimization problem concerns finding an optimum in a changing environment. In the field of evolutionary algorithms, this implies dealing with a timechanging fitness l...
Claudio Rossi, Mohamed Abderrahim, Julio Cé...
EC
2008
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Genetic Algorithms with Memory- and Elitism-Based Immigrants in Dynamic Environments
In recent years the genetic algorithm community has shown a growing interest in studying dynamic optimization problems. Several approaches have been devised. The random immigrants...
Shengxiang Yang
EC
2008
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A Graphical Model for Evolutionary Optimization
We present a statistical model of empirical optimization that admits the creation of algorithms with explicit and intuitively defined desiderata. Because No Free Lunch theorems di...
Christopher K. Monson, Kevin D. Seppi
EC
2008
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Genetic Algorithms for Data-Driven Web Question Answering
We present1 an evolutionary approach for the computation of exact answers to Natural Languages (NL) questions. Answers are extracted directly from the N
Alejandro Figueroa, Günter Neumann