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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 1 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 1 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 1 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