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2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Disjoint Sum of Product Minimization by Evolutionary Algorithms
Recently, an approach has been presented to minimize Disjoint Sumof-Products (DSOPs) based on Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs). Due to the symbolic representation of cubes for larg...
Nicole Drechsler, Mario Hilgemeier, Görschwin...
EVOW
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Virtual Ecosystem as Generative Electronic Art
This paper proposes four desirable attributes of processes to be applied in generative electronic art. By example, it then demonstrates that the virtual ecosystem in its entirety i...
Alan Dorin
EVOW
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Comparison of Adaptive Operator Scheduling Methods on the Traveling Salesman Problem
Abstract. The implementation of an evolutionary algorithm necessarily involves the selection of an appropriate set of genetic operators. For many real-world problem domains, an inc...
Wouter Boomsma
EVOW
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Evolutionary Search of Thresholds for Robust Feature Set Selection: Application to the Analysis of Microarray Data
Abstract. We deal with two important problems in pattern recognition that arise in the analysis of large datasets. While most feature subset selection methods use statistical techn...
Carlos Cotta, Christian Sloper, Pablo Moscato
EVOW
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Scatter Search and Memetic Approaches to the Error Correcting Code Problem
We consider the problem of designing error correcting codes (ECC), a hard combinatorial optimization problem of relevance in the field of telecommunications. This problem is tackl...
Carlos Cotta
EVOW
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Swarm Granulator
Abstract. This paper describes a Swarm Granulator, a new application of particle swarms to sound synthesis. Granulation, an established technique in sound synthesis, depends on man...
Tim Blackwell, Michael Young
EVOW
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Memetic Algorithm for Protein Structure Prediction in a 3D-Lattice HP Model
This paper presents a memetic algorithm with self-adaptive local search, applied to protein structure prediction in an HP, cubiclattice model. Besides describing in detail how the ...
Andrea Bazzoli, Andrea Tettamanzi
EVOW
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using GAs to Create a Waveguide Model of the Oral Vocal Tract
A Digital Waveguide Mesh is introduced as a method for acoustic modelling. Genetic Algorithms are applied to evolve the structure of a mesh to simulate the human throat and mouth, ...
Crispin H. V. Cooper, David M. Howard, Andrew M. T...
EVOW
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Scenario-Based Approach to Protocol Design Using Evolutionary Techniques
An evolutionary approach to design communication protocols from scenario-based specifications is presented. It enables to automatically generate finite-state models of protocol ent...
Sérgio G. Araújo, Antônio C. M...
EVOW
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Solving the Vehicle Routing Problem by Using Cellular Genetic Algorithms
Cellular Genetic Algorithms (cGAs) are a subclass of Genetic Algorithms (GAs) in which the population diversity and exploration are enhanced thanks to the existence of small overla...
Enrique Alba, Bernabé Dorronsoro