SOCO
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2010
Springer
In this paper, a diversity generating mechanism is proposed for an Evolutionary Programming (EP) algorithm that determines the basic structure of Multilayer Perceptron classifiers ...
GPEM
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Abstract With current developments of parallel and distributed computing, evolutionary algorithms have benefited considerably from parallelization techniques. Besides improved com...
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2008
ACM
Biological populations are dynamic in both space and time, that is, the population size of a species fluctuates across their habitats over time. There are rarely any static or fix...
FOGA
1998
14 years 24 days ago
1998
Genetic algorithms (GAs) are multi-dimensional and stochastic search methods, involving complex interactions among their parameters. For last two decades, researchers have been tr...
FLAIRS
2003
14 years 24 days ago
2003
Researchers studying Evolutionary Algorithms and their applications have always been confronted with the sample complexity problem. The relationship between population size and gl...
FLAIRS
2004
14 years 25 days ago
2004
In multimodal function optimization, niching techniques create diversification within the population, thus encouraging heterogeneous convergence. The key to the effective diversif...
GECCO
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
The population size in evolutionary computation is a significant parameter affecting computational effort and the ability to successfully evolve solutions. We find that population...
GECCO
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2006
Springer
In an evolutionary algorithm, the population has a very important role as its size has direct implications regarding solution quality, speed, and reliability. Theoretical studies ...
GECCO
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2003
Springer
Abstract. Population size for EvolutionaryAlgorithms is usually an empirical parameter. We study the population size from aspects of fitness landscapes’ ruggedness and Probably ...
GECCO
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2003
Springer
With the exception of a small body of adaptive-parameter literature, evolutionary computation has traditionally favored keeping the population size constant through the course of t...