TEC
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
Kimura’s neutral theory of evolution has inspired researchers from the evolutionary computation community to incorporate neutrality into Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) in the hop...
GECCO
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
2011
Springer
When the epistasis of the fitness function is bounded by a constant, we show that the expected fitness of an offspring of the (1+1)-EA can be efficiently computed for any point...
JCIT
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
The mutation rate of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is often obtained by statistical software. This is restricted to the sampled data and cannot be applied to other cases. This limit...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 1 months ago
2010
Springer
The interplay between the mutation operator and the selection mechanism plays a fundamental role in the behaviour of evolutionary algorithms (EAs). However, this interplay is stil...
ICGA
1993
13 years 5 months ago
1993
It is part of the traditional lore of genetic algorithms that low mutation rates lead to efficient search of the solution space, while high mutation rates result in diffusion of s...
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
In this paper we test whether a correlation exists between the optimal mutation rate and problem difficulty. We find that the range of optimal mutation rates is inversely proporti...
GECCO
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2006
Springer
Using a set of model landscapes we examine how different mutation rates affect different search metrics. We show that very universal heuristics, such as 1/N and the error threshol...
ECAL
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
1999
Springer
We use a new general-purpose model of neutral evolution of genotypes to make quantitative comparisons of diversity and adaptive evolutionary activity as a function of mutation rate...
CEC
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
— Parameter setting is an important issue in the design of evolutionary algorithms. Recently, experimental work has pointed out that it is often not useful to work with a fixed ...