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PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Constrained Evolutionary Optimization by Approximate Ranking and Surrogate Models
Abstract. The paper describes an evolutionary algorithm for the general nonlinear programming problem using a surrogate model. Surrogate models are used in optimization when model ...
Thomas Philip Runarsson
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Dominance Based Crossover Operator for Evolutionary Multi-objective Algorithms
In spite of the recent quick growth of the Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization (EMO) research field, there has been few trials to adapt the general variation operators to t...
Olga Rudenko, Marc Schoenauer
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Multi-cellular Development: Is There Scalability and Robustness to Gain?
Evolving large phenotypes remains nowadays a problem due to the combinatorial explosion of the search space. Seeking better scalability and inspired by the development of biologica...
Daniel Roggen, Diego Federici
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Behavior of Evolutionary Algorithms in Chaotically Changing Fitness Landscapes
We study an evolutionary algorithm used for optimizing in a chaotically changing dynamic environment. The corresponding chaotic non–stationary fitness landscape can be character...
Hendrik Richter
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
An Improved Evaluation Function for the Bandwidth Minimization Problem
This paper introduces a new evaluation function, called δ, for the Bandwidth Minimization Problem for Graphs (BMPG). Compared with the classical β evaluation function used, our ...
Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello, Jin-Kao Hao, Jose Torres-...
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Optimization via Parameter Mapping with Genetic Programming
Abstract. This paper describes a new approach for parameter optimization that uses a novel representation for the parameters to be optimized. By using genetic programming, the new ...
João Carlos Figueira Pujol, Riccardo Poli
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Evaluation of Adaptive Nature Inspired Task Allocation Against Alternate Decentralised Multiagent Strategies
Adaptive multiagent algorithms based upon the behaviour of social insects are powerful decentralised systems capable of solving complex problems. The intelligence of such a system ...
Richard Price, Peter Tiño
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
On the Importance of Information Speed in Structured Populations
A radius–based separation of selection and recombination spheres in diffusion model EAs is introduced, enabling a new taxonomy, oriented towards information flow analysis. It a...
Mike Preuss, Christian Lasarczyk
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Primer on the Evolution of Equivalence Classes of Bayesian-Network Structures
Bayesian networks (BN) constitute a useful tool to model the joint distribution of a set of random variables of interest. To deal with the problem of learning sensible BN models fr...
Jorge Muruzábal, Carlos Cotta
PPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Distribution Tree-Building Real-Valued Evolutionary Algorithm
This article describes a new model of probability density function and its use in estimation of distribution algorithms. The new model, the distribution tree, has interesting prope...
Petr Posik