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CEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
— The scaling properties of multimodal optimization methods have seldom been studied, and existing studies often concentrated on the idea that all local optima of a multimodal fu...
GECCO
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
This paper proposes a new niching method named hierarchical niching, which combines spatial niching in search space and a continuous temporal niching concept. The method is natural...
CEC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
— Since the Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) have been introduced, several single model based EDAs and mixture model based EDAs have been developed. Take Gaussian mod...
AMC
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
Many scientific and engineering applications require optimization methods to find more than one solution to multimodal optimization problems. This paper presents a new particle ...
GECCO
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
This paper investigates reinforcement learning (RL) in XCS. First, it formally shows that XCS implements a method of generalized RL based on linear approximators, in which the usu...