Maintaining diversity is important for the performance of evolutionary algorithms. Diversity mechanisms can enhance global exploration of the search space and enable crossover to ...
Tobias Friedrich, Pietro Simone Oliveto, Dirk Sudh...
The traditional GA theory is pillared on the Building Block Hypothesis (BBH) which states that Genetic Algorithms (GAs) work by discovering, emphasizing and recombining low order ...
Auctions are useful mechanism for allocating items (goods, tasks, resources, etc.) in multiagent systems. The bulk of auction theory assumes that the bidders’ valuations for ite...
Background. Software defect prediction has been one of the central topics of software engineering. Predicted defect counts have been used mainly to assess software quality and est...
Thomas Schulz, Lukasz Radlinski, Thomas Gorges, Wo...
TOPSAW program was developed by Dr. S. Chang and his team and has been successfully used in the replication of sawmill cutting to determine the optimal cutting pattern for a log t...