The paper discusses three major issues. First, it discusses why it makes sense to approach problems in a hierarchical fashion. It de nes the class of hierarchically decomposable f...
Abstract. Theoretical and empirical evidence exists that the hierarchical Bayesian optimization algorithm (hBOA) can solve challenging hierarchical problems and anything easier. Th...
The simultaneity matrix is an × matrix of numbers. It is constructed according to a set of -bit solutions. The matrix element mij is the degree of linkage between bit positions i ...
Abstract. In this paper, we propose an approach for solving hierarchical multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs). In realistic MOPs, two main challenges have to be considered:...
Competent Genetic Algorithms can efficiently address problems in which the linkage between variables is limited to a small order k. Problems with higher order dependencies can onl...
Edwin D. de Jong, Richard A. Watson, Dirk Thierens