PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2000
Springer
In the design of communication networks, robustness against failures in single links or nodes is an important issue. This paper proposes a new approach for the NP-complete edge-bic...
PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2000
Springer
Domain knowledge is essential for successful problem solving and optimization. This paper introduces a framework in which a form of automatic domain knowledge extraction can be im...
PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2000
Springer
To investigate the fundamental causes of bloat, six artificial random binary tree search spaces are presented. Fitness is given by program syntax (the genetic programming genotype)...
PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2000
Springer
Abstract. Three theoretical perspectives upon conservation of performance in function optimization are outlined. In terms of statistical information, performance is conserved when ...
PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2000
Springer
A family of recombination operators is studied in this work. These operators are based on keeping and using certain information about the past evolution of the algorithm to guide t...
PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2000
Springer
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...