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BMCBI
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Estimating time since infection in early homogeneous HIV-1 samples using a poisson model
Background: The occurrence of a genetic bottleneck in HIV sexual or mother-to-infant transmission has been well documented. This results in a majority of new infections being homo...
Elena E. Giorgi, Bob Funkhouser, Gayathri Athreya,...
JAMDS
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Estimating a resource selection function with line transect sampling
Abstract. A resource selection probability function is a function that gives the probability that a resource unit (e.g., a plot of land) that is described by a set of habitat varia...
Bryan F. J. Manly
GECCO
2007
Springer
168views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Sex and death: towards biologically inspired heuristics for constraint handling
Constrained continuous optimization is still an interesting field of research. Many heuristics have been proposed in the last decade. Most of them are based on penalty functions....
Oliver Kramer, Stephan Brügger, Dejan Lazovic
AAAI
1992
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Programming of Robots Using Genetic Programming
The goal in automatic programming is to get a computer to perform a task by telling it what needs to be done, rather than by explicitly programming it. This paper considers the ta...
John R. Koza, James Rice
GECCO
2006
Springer
152views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
13 years 8 months ago
Strong recombination, weak selection, and mutation
We show that there are unimodal fitness functions and genetic algorithm (GA) parameter settings where the GA, when initialized with a random population, will not move close to the...
Alden H. Wright, J. Neal Richter