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EVOW
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Conquering the Needle-in-a-Haystack: How Correlated Input Variables Beneficially Alter the Fitness Landscape for Neural Networks
Abstract. Evolutionary algorithms such as genetic programming and grammatical evolution have been used for simultaneously optimizing network architecture, variable selection, and w...
Stephen D. Turner, Marylyn D. Ritchie, William S. ...
EVOW
2007
Springer
16 years 23 days ago
Reducing the Size of Traveling Salesman Problem Instances by Fixing Edges
Abstract. The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a well-known NPhard combinatorial optimization problem, for which a large variety of evolutionary algorithms are known. However, t...
Thomas Fischer, Peter Merz
GECCO
2007
Springer
192views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
16 years 22 days ago
Estimation of fitness landscape contours in EAs
Evolutionary algorithms applied in real domain should profit from information about the local fitness function curvature. This paper presents an initial study of an evolutionary...
Petr Posík, Vojtech Franc
CEC
2008
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Potential and dynamics-based Particle Swarm Optimization
Abstract— The Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm is a robust stochastic evolutionary computation technique based on the movement and intelligence of swarms. This paper p...
Hyungmin Park, Jong-Hwan Kim
GECCO
2010
Springer
244views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
Implicit fitness and heterogeneous preferences in the genetic algorithm
This paper takes an economic approach to derive an evolutionary learning model based entirely on the endogenous employment of genetic operators in the service of self-interested a...
Justin T. H. Smith