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GEM
2008
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Evaluating a Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm on the Chess Endgame Problem
Classifying the endgame positions in Chess can be challenging for humans and is known to be a difficult task in machine learning. An evolutionary algorithm would seem to be the ide...
Wayne Iba, Kelsey Marshman, Benjamin Fisk
GEM
2008
14 years 10 months ago
Better Huffman Coding via Genetic Algorithm
Abstract--We present an approach to compress arbitrary files using a Huffman-like prefix-free code generated through the use of a genetic algorithm, thus requiring no prior knowled...
Cody Boisclair, Markus Wagner
GEM
2008
14 years 10 months ago
Pseudo-Genetic Algorithmic Composition
This paper presents a realtime music composition system based on a theme and variation approach. The system uses MIDI and allows up to sixteen instruments to play together. Each in...
Harald Schmidl
GEM
2008
14 years 10 months ago
Initial Population Diversity Does Not Influence Performance
- It is widely believed that greater initial population diversity leads to improved performance in genetic algorithms. However, this assumption has not been rigorously tested previ...
Pedro A. Diaz-Gomez, Dean F. Hougen