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CEC
2011
IEEE
12 years 10 months ago
Comparing alternative energy functions for the HP model of protein structure prediction
Abstract—Protein structure prediction is the problem of finding the functional conformation of a protein given only its amino uence. The HP lattice model is an abstract formulat...
Mario Garza-Fabre, Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello, Gregor...
GECCO
2011
Springer
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13 years 1 months ago
Spacing memetic algorithms
We introduce the Spacing Memetic Algorithm (SMA), a formal evolutionary model devoted to a systematic control of spacing (distances) among individuals. SMA uses search space dista...
Daniel Cosmin Porumbel, Jin-Kao Hao, Pascale Kuntz
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
A Comparison between Memetic algorithm and Genetic algorithm for the cryptanalysis of Simplified Data Encryption Standard algori
Genetic algorithms are a population-based Meta heuristics. They have been successfully applied to many optimization problems. However, premature convergence is an inherent charact...
Poonam Garg
TSE
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Search-Based Testing: Local, Global, and Hybrid Search
Search based optimization techniques have been applied to structural software test data generation since 1992, with a recent upsurge in interest and activity within this area. How...
Mark Harman, Phil McMinn
AMC
2004
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13 years 10 months ago
Performance comparison of memetic algorithms
Local search techniques have been applied in optimization methods. The effect of local search to the memetic algorithms can make multimodal and non-linear problems easier to solve...
Jason G. Digalakis, Konstantinos G. Margaritis
AMC
2006
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13 years 10 months ago
A memetic algorithm for a vehicle routing problem with backhauls
This paper considers an extension of a vehicle routing problem with backhauls (VRPB). In this problem, a set of costumers are divided in two subsets consisting of linehaul and bac...
Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, A. R. Saremi, M. S. Ziae...
CEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Towards probabilistic memetic algorithm: An initial study on capacitated arc routing problem
— Capacitated arc routing problem (CARP) has attracted much attention due to its generality to many real world problems. Memetic algorithm (MA), among other metaheuristic search ...
Liang Feng, Yew-Soon Ong, Quang Huy Nguyen 0001, A...
GECCO
2008
Springer
175views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Non-genetic transmission of memes by diffusion
In recent years, there has been an increase in research activities on Memetic Algorithm (MA). MA works with memes; a meme being defined as “the basic unit of cultural transmiss...
Quang Huy Nguyen 0001, Yew-Soon Ong, Meng-Hiot Lim
HM
2010
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
A Memetic Algorithm for Reconstructing Cross-Cut Shredded Text Documents
The reconstruction of destroyed paper documents became of more interest during the last years. On the one hand it (often) occurs that documents are destroyed by mistake while on th...
Christian Schauer, Matthias Prandtstetter, Gü...
IJIT
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Memetic Algorithm Based Path Planning for a Mobile Robot
In this paper, the problem of finding the optimal collision free path for a mobile robot, the path planning problem, is solved using an advanced evolutionary algorithm called memet...
Neda Shahidi, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Marziye Abdollahi...