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ECAL
2001
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Model of Human Mate Choice with Courtship That Predicts Population Patterns
We present a new model of human mate choice incorporating non-negligible courtship time. The courtship period is used by individuals to strategically swap to better partners when t...
Jorge Simão, Peter M. Todd
GECCO
1999
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Large Populations Are Not Always The Best Choice In Genetic Programming
In genetic programming a general consensus is that the population should be as large as practically possible or sensible. In this paper we examine a batch of problems of combinato...
Matthias Fuchs
MICCAI
2001
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Shape versus Size: Improved Understanding of the Morphology of Brain Structures
Standard practice in quantitative structural neuroimaging is a segmentation into brain tissue, subcortical structures, fluid space and lesions followed by volume calculations of gr...
Guido Gerig, Martin Styner, Martha Elizabeth Shent...
EVOW
2010
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
A New Selection Ratio for Large Population Sizes
Abstract. Motivated by parallel optimization, we study the SelfAdaptation algorithm for large population sizes. We first show that the current version of this algorithm does not r...
Fabien Teytaud
GECCO
2006
Springer
139views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Genetic programming: optimal population sizes for varying complexity problems
The population size in evolutionary computation is a significant parameter affecting computational effort and the ability to successfully evolve solutions. We find that population...
Alan Piszcz, Terence Soule