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2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Pixel Statistics and False Alarm Area in Genetic Programming for Object Detection
This paper describes a domain independent approach to the use of genetic programming for object detection problems. Rather than using raw pixels or high level domain specific feat...
Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae, Mark Pritchard
EVOW
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Search Space Analysis of the Linear Ordering Problem
Abstract. The Linear Ordering Problem (LOP) is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that arises in a variety of applications and several algorithmic approaches to its solu...
Tommaso Schiavinotto, Thomas Stützle
EVOW
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
On the Development of Critics in Evolutionary Computation Artists
One of the problems in the use of evolutionary computer systems in artistic tasks is the lack of artificial models of human critics. In this paper, based on the state of the art an...
Juan Romero, Penousal Machado, Antonino Santos, Am...
EVOW
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Genophone: Evolving Sounds and Integral Performance Parameter Mappings
This paper explores the application of evolutionary techniques to the design of novel sounds and their characteristics during performance. It is based on the “selective breeding...
James Mandelis
EVOW
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Evolutionary Music and the Zipf-Mandelbrot Law: Developing Fitness Functions for Pleasant Music
Abstract. A study on a 220-piece corpus (baroque, classical, romantic, 12tone, jazz, rock, DNA strings, and random music) reveals that aesthetically pleasing music may be describab...
Bill Z. Manaris, Dallas Vaughan, Christopher Wagne...
EVOW
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Evolving Motion of Robots with Muscles
The objective of this work is to investigate how effective smart materials are for generating the motion of a robot. Because of the unique method of locomotion, an evolutionary alg...
Siavash Haroun Mahdavi, Peter J. Bentley
EVOW
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Hybrid Evolution Strategy-Downhill Simplex Algorithm for Inverse Light Scattering Problems
The rough surface inverse scattering problem is approached with a combination of evolutionary strategies and the simplex method. The surface, assumed one-dimensional and perfectly ...
Demetrio Macías, Gustavo Olague, Eugenio R....
EVOW
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Comparison of AdaBoost and Genetic Programming for Combining Neural Networks for Drug Discovery
Genetic programming (GP) based data fusion and AdaBoost can both improve in vitro prediction of Cytochrome P450 activity by combining artificial neural networks (ANN). Pharmaceuti...
William B. Langdon, S. J. Barrett, Bernard F. Buxt...
EVOW
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Genetic Algorithm for the Index Selection Problem
This paper considers the problem of minimizing the response time for a given database workload by a proper choice of indexes. This problem is NP-hard and known in the literature as...
Jozef Kratica, Ivana Ljubic, Dusan Tosic