GECCO
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
The use of genotypic populations is necessary for adaptation in Evolutionary Algorithms. We use a technique called form-invariant commutation to study the immediate effect of evol...
GECCO
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Niching techniques play an important role in evolutionary algorithms. Existing niching methods often require userspecified parameters, limiting their usefulness. This paper propos...
GECCO
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
A spanning tree of a graph such that each vertex in the tree has degree at most d is called a degree-constrained spanning tree. The problem of finding the degree-constrained spann...
GECCO
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
This paper presents an algorithm for solving a number of generalized graph coloring problems. Specifically, it gives an agent-based algorithm for the Bandwidth Coloring problem. U...
GECCO
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Given the prominence of elite archiving in contemporary multiobjective optimisation research and the limitations inherent in bounded population sizes, it is unusual that the vast ...
GECCO
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
This paper investigates the limits of the predictions based on the classical progress rate theory for Evolution Strategies. We explain on the sphere function why positive progress...
GECCO
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
When a considerable number of mutations have no effects on fitness values, the fitness landscape is said neutral. In order to study the interplay between neutrality, which exists ...
GECCO
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Organising evolution strategies hierarchically has been proposed as a means for adapting strategy parameters such as step lengths. Experimental research has shown that on ridge fu...
GECCO
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Automatically assessing the value of bioavailability from the chemical structure of a molecule is a very important issue in biomedicine and pharmacology. In this paper, we present...
GECCO
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
When an evolutionary algorithm addresses a sequence of instances of the same problem, it can seed its population with solutions that it found for previous instances. This techniqu...