The effects of neutrality on evolutionary search have been considered in a number of interesting studies, the results of which, however, have been contradictory. Some researchers ...
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 ...
The fitness landscape of a problem is the relation between the solution candidates and their reproduction probability. In order to understand optimization problems, it is essenti...
Thomas Weise, Stefan Niemczyk, Hendrik Skubch, Rol...
This paper investigates ‘complete ignorance’ (CI) in the tradition of the CI literature and provides a characterization of possible attitudes toward ignorance. Pessimism, opti...