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EC
2008
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The Crowding Approach to Niching in Genetic Algorithms
A wide range of niching techniques have been investigated in evolutionary and genetic algorithms. In this article, we focus on niching using crowding techniques in the context of ...
Ole J. Mengshoel, David E. Goldberg
EC
2008
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Automated Design of Image Operators that Detect Interest Points
This work describes how evolutionary computation can be used to synthesize lowlevel image operators that detect interesting points on digital images. Interest point detection is a...
Leonardo Trujillo, Gustavo Olague
EC
2008
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On Complexity of Optimal Recombination for Binary Representations of Solutions
We consider an optimization problem of finding the best possible offspring as a result of a recombination operator in an evolutionary algorithm, given two parent solutions. The op...
Anton V. Eremeev
EC
2008
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Texture Segmentation by Genetic Programming
We investigated image retrieval using texture segmentation by genetic programming. In this study, we are interested with two textures: sky and grass textures. Single-step texture ...
Andy Song, Victor Ciesielski
EC
2008
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Human Body Pose Estimation with Particle Swarm Optimisation
In this paper we address the problem of human body pose estimation from still images. A multi-view set of images of a person sitting at a table is acquired and the pose estimated....
Spela Ivekovic, Emanuele Trucco, Yvan R. Petillot
EC
2008
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Efficient Evaluation Functions for Evolving Coordination
Abstract-- This paper presents a method for creating evaluation functions that efficiently promote coordination in a multiagent system, allowing single-agent evolutionary computati...
Adrian K. Agogino, Kagan Tumer
EC
2008
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Automated Discovery of Local Search Heuristics for Satisfiability Testing
The development of successful metaheuristic algorithms such as local search for a difficult problems such as satisfiability testing (SAT) is a challenging task. We investigate an ...
Alex S. Fukunaga
EC
2008
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Multiobjective Immune Algorithm with Nondominated Neighbor-Based Selection
Nondominated Neighbor Immune Algorithm (NNIA) is proposed for multiobjective optimization by using a novel nondominated neighbor-based selection technique, an immune inspired oper...
Maoguo Gong, Licheng Jiao, Haifeng Du, Liefeng Bo
EC
2008
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Tracking Moving Optima Using Kalman-Based Predictions
The dynamic optimization problem concerns finding an optimum in a changing environment. In the field of evolutionary algorithms, this implies dealing with a timechanging fitness l...
Claudio Rossi, Mohamed Abderrahim, Julio Cé...
EC
2008
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Genetic Algorithms with Memory- and Elitism-Based Immigrants in Dynamic Environments
In recent years the genetic algorithm community has shown a growing interest in studying dynamic optimization problems. Several approaches have been devised. The random immigrants...
Shengxiang Yang