PPSN
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Springer
Recombination (also called crossover) operators are widely used in EAs to generate offspring solutions. Although the usefulness of recombination has been well recognized, theoretic...
EC
1998
13 years 7 months ago
1998
This paper analyzes different representations for permutation flowshop problems. This is done using forma analysis to assess the quality of these representations with respect to m...
GPEM
2002
13 years 7 months ago
2002
A number of algorithms have been proposed aimed at tackling the problem of learning "Gene Linkage" within the context of genetic optimisation, that is to say, the problem...
FOGA
1994
13 years 8 months ago
1994
Holland's Schema Theorem is widely taken to be the foundation for explanations of the power of genetic algorithms (GAs). Yet some dissent has been expressed as to its implica...
FOGA
1998
13 years 8 months ago
1998
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...
AISB
1995
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
1995
Springer
This paper discusses a series of recombination operators for the timetabling problem. These operators act upon a direct representation of the timetable and maintain the property of...
PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2000
Springer
A family of recombination operators is studied in this work. These operators are based on keeping and using certain information about the past evolution of the algorithm to guide t...
GECCO
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2006
Springer
Existing test problems for multi-objective optimization are criticized for not having adequate linkages among variables. In most problems, the Pareto-optimal solutions correspond ...
MICAI
2005
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
2005
Springer
In this paper the Minimum Linear Arrangement (MinLA) problem is studied within the framework of memetic algorithms (MA). A new dedicated recombination operator called Trajectory Cr...
GECCO
2005
Springer
14 years 29 days ago
2005
Springer
Design optimization is a well established application field of evolutionary computation. However, standard recombination operators acting on the genotypic representation of the d...