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FOGA
1998
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Understanding Interactions among Genetic Algorithm Parameters
Genetic algorithms (GAs) are multi-dimensional and stochastic search methods, involving complex interactions among their parameters. For last two decades, researchers have been tr...
Kalyanmoy Deb, Samir Agrawal
FOGA
1998
13 years 10 months ago
Schemata as Building Blocks: Does Size Matter?
We analyze the schema theorem and the building block hypothesis using a recently derived, exact schemata evolution equation. We derive a new schema theorem based on the concept of...
Christopher R. Stephens, Henri Waelbroeck, R. Agui...
FOGA
1998
13 years 10 months ago
Dining with GAs: Operator Lunch Theorems
There has been considerable discussion of the pros/cons of recombination and mutation operators in the context of Holland's schema theory. In this paper we de ne a common fra...
William M. Spears, Kenneth A. De Jong