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GECCO
2011
Springer
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12 years 9 months ago
Size-based tournaments for node selection
In genetic programming, the reproductive operators of crossover and mutation both require the selection of nodes from the reproducing individuals. Both unbiased random selection a...
Thomas Helmuth, Lee Spector, Brian Martin
GECCO
2007
Springer
160views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
13 years 12 months ago
Hill climbing on discrete HIFF: exploring the role of DNA transposition in long-term artificial evolution
We show how a random mutation hill climber that does multilevel selection utilizes transposition to escape local optima on the discrete Hierarchical-If-And-Only-If (HIFF) problem....
Susan Khor
GECCO
2008
Springer
137views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Rank based variation operators for genetic algorithms
We show how and why using genetic operators that are applied with probabilities that depend on the fitness rank of a genotype or phenotype offers a robust alternative to the Sim...
Jorge Cervantes, Christopher R. Stephens
AI
2003
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Hybrid Randomised Neighbourhoods Improve Stochastic Local Search for DNA Code Design
Sets of DNA strands that satisfy combinatorial constraints play an important role in various approaches to biomolecular computation, nanostructure design, and molecular tagging. Th...
Dan C. Tulpan, Holger H. Hoos
EC
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
An Extension of Geiringer's Theorem for a Wide Class of Evolutionary Search Algorithms
The frequency with which various elements of the search space of a given evolutionary algorithm are sampled is affected by the family of recombination (reproduction) operators. Th...
Boris Mitavskiy, Jonathan E. Rowe