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CEC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Modified genetic algorithm for job-shop scheduling: A gap utilization technique
—The Job-Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) is one of the most critical combinatorial optimization problems. The objective of JSSP in this research is to minimize the makespan. In th...
S. M. Kamrul Hasan, Ruhul A. Sarker, David Cornfor...
CEC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A histogram-matching approach to the evolution of bin-packing strategies
Abstract— We present a novel algorithm for the onedimension offline bin packing problem with discrete item sizes based on the notion of matching the item-size histogram with the...
Riccardo Poli, John Woodward, Edmund K. Burke
CEC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The effects of supermajority on multi-parent crossover
Abstract— Multi-parent crossover allows more than two parents participating in crossover. The increase of parents in crossover intensifies exploitation or exploration or both; h...
Chuan-Kang Ting, Chun-Cheng Chen
CEC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A simple genetic algorithm for music generation by means of algorithmic information theory
— Recent large scale experiments have shown that the Normalized Information Distance, an algorithmic information measure, is among the best similarity metrics for melody classi...
Manuel Alfonseca, Manuel Cebrián, Alfonso O...
CEC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Towards a generic control strategy for Evolutionary Algorithms: an adaptive fuzzy-learning approach
— This paper presents a new method to generalize strategies in order to control parameters of Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs). A learning process establishes the relationship betwe...
Jorge Maturana, Frédéric Saubion
CEC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Plateaus can be harder in multi-objective optimization
—In recent years a lot of progress has been made in understanding the behavior of evolutionary computation methods for single- and multi-objective problems. Our aim is to analyze...
Tobias Friedrich, Nils Hebbinghaus, Frank Neumann
CEC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Achieving environmental tolerance through the initiation and exploitation of external information
— It is often believed that biological organisms have an inherent tolerance to environmental changes. This is a seductive concept if transferred to artificial organisms. An expe...
Gunnar Tufte, Pauline C. Haddow
CEC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The differential ant-stigmergy algorithm: an experimental evaluation and a real-world application
— This paper describes the so-called Differential Ant-Stigmergy Algorithm (DASA), which is an extension of the Ant-Colony Optimization for a continuous domain. An experimental ev...
Peter Korosec, Jurij Silc, Klemen Oblak, Franc Kos...
CEC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Solving multimodal problems via multiobjective techniques with Application to phase equilibrium detection
Abstract— For solving multimodal problems by means of evolutionary algorithms, one often resorts to multistarts or niching methods. The latter approach the question: ‘What is e...
Mike Preuss, Günter Rudolph, Feelly Tumakaka
CEC
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Improving generalization capability of neural networks based on simulated annealing
— This paper presents a single-objective and a multiobjective stochastic optimization algorithms for global training of neural networks based on simulated annealing. The algorith...
Yeejin Lee, Jong-Seok Lee, Sun-Young Lee, Cheol Ho...