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PPSN
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Integrated Facility Design Using an Evolutionary Approach with a Subordinate Network Algorithm
The facility design problem is a common one in manufacturing and service industries and has been studied extensively in the literature. However, restrictions on the scope of the de...
Bryan A. Norman, Alice E. Smith, Rifat Aykut Arapo...
PPSN
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
On Genetic Algorithms and Lindenmayer Systems
This paper describes a system for simulating the evolution of artificial 2D plant morphologies. Virtual plant genotypes are inspired by the mathematical formalism known as Lindenma...
Gabriela Ochoa
PPSN
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Niching and Elitist Models for MOGAs
This paper examines several niching and elitist models applied to Multiple-Objective Genetic Algorithms (MOGAs). Test cases consider a simple problem as well as multidisciplinary d...
Shigeru Obayashi, Shinichi Takahashi, Yukihiro Tak...
PPSN
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Spatial Predator-Prey Approach to Multi-objective Optimization: A Preliminary Study
This paper presents a novel evolutionary approach of approximating the shape of the Pareto-optimal set of multi-objective optimization problems. The evolutionary algorithm (EA) use...
Marco Laumanns, Günter Rudolph, Hans-Paul Sch...
PPSN
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Decoder-Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Constrained Parameter Optimization Problems
Several methods have been proposed for handling nonlinear constraints by evolutionary algorithms for numerical optimization problems; a survey paper [7] provides an overview of var...
Slawomir Koziel, Zbigniew Michalewicz
PPSN
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Mechanisms of Emergent Computation in Cellular Automata
Abstract. We introduce a class of embedded-particle models for describing the emergent computational strategies observed in cellular automata (CAs) that were evolved for performing...
Wim Hordijk, James P. Crutchfield, Melanie Mitchel...
PPSN
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Methods to Evolve Legal Phenotypes
Many optimization problems require the satisfaction of constraints in addition to their objectives. When using an evolutionary algorithm to solve such problems, these constraints c...
Tina Yu, Peter J. Bentley
PPSN
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Restart Scheduling for Genetic Algorithms
Abstract. In order to escape from local optima, it is standard practice to periodically restart a genetic algorithm according to some restart criteria/policy. This paper addresses ...
Alex S. Fukunaga
PPSN
1998
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Solving Binary Constraint Satisfaction Problems Using Evolutionary Algorithms with an Adaptive Fitness Function
This paper presents a comparative study of Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) for Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). We focus on EAs where fitness is based on penalization of cons...
A. E. Eiben, Jano I. van Hemert, Elena Marchiori, ...