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FOGA
1992
13 years 5 months ago
Relative Building-Block Fitness and the Building Block Hypothesis
The building-block hypothesis states that the GA works well when short, low-order, highly-fit schemas recombine to form even more highly fit higher-order schemas. The ability to p...
Stephanie Forrest, Melanie Mitchell
FOGA
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Schemata as Building Blocks: Does Size Matter?
We analyze the schema theorem and the building block hypothesis using a recently derived, exact schemata evolution equation. We derive a new schema theorem based on the concept of...
Christopher R. Stephens, Henri Waelbroeck, R. Agui...
GECCO
2004
Springer
114views Optimization» more  GECCO 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
A Competitive Building Block Hypothesis
This paper is concerned with examining the way in which rooted building blocks grow in GP-like systems. We hypothesize that, in addition to the normal notion of co-operative buildi...
Conor Ryan, Hammad Majeed, R. Muhammad Atif Azad
PPSN
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Modeling Building-Block Interdependency
The Building-Block Hypothesis appeals to the notion of problem decomposition and the assembly of solutions from sub-solutions. Accordingly, there have been many varieties of GA tes...
Richard A. Watson, Gregory Hornby, Jordan B. Polla...
CORR
2008
Springer
112views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
The Fundamental Problem with the Building Block Hypothesis
Skepticism of the building block hypothesis has previously been expressed on account of the weak theoretical foundations of this hypothesis and anomalies in the empirical record o...
Keki M. Burjorjee