— The use of higher-order functions, as a method of ion and re-use in EC encodings, has been the subject of relatively little research. In this paper we introduce and give motiva...
James McDermott, Jonathan Byrne, John Mark Swaffor...
The incremental updating of classifiers implies that their internal parameter values can vary according to incoming data. As a result, in order to achieve high performance, incre...
— Memetic algorithms (MAs) combine the global exploration abilities of evolutionary algorithms with a local search to further improve the solutions. While a neighborhood can be e...
Thomas Michelitsch, Tobias Wagner, Dirk Biermann, ...
Knowledge about user goals is crucial for realizing the vision of intelligent agents acting upon user intent on the web. In a departure from existing approaches, this paper propos...
Markus Strohmaier, Peter Prettenhofer, Mark Kr&oum...
How can an intelligent agent update her knowledge base about an action domain, relative to some conditions (possibly obtained from earlier observations)? We study this question in...