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ESANN
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
Abstract. A well-known result by Stein shows that regularized estimators with small bias often yield better estimates than unbiased estimators. In this paper, we adapt this spirit ...
CORR
2004
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2004
Springer
1 In evolutionary algorithms a critical parameter that must be tuned is that of selection pressure. If it is set too low then the rate of convergence towards the optimum is likely...
GECCO
2003
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2003
Springer
Abstract. Although it is known from GA literature that proportionate selection is subject to many pitfalls, the LCS community somewhat adhered to proportionate selection. Also in t...
EOR
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
We discuss tournaments in terms of their efficiency as probabilistic mechanisms that select high-quality alternatives ("players") in a noisy environment. We use two crit...
CEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
Multi-modal optimization refers to locating not only one optimum but a set of locally optimal solutions. Niching is an important technique to solve multi-modal optimization problem...