Fitness distance correlation and mixed search strategy for differential evolution

W Li, X Meng, Y Huang - Neurocomputing, 2021 - Elsevier
… of evolutionary algorithm optimization, a fitness landscape … as the local fitness, fitness distance
correlation, and landscape … the difficulty of solving this problem, we classify the correlation

Identifying features of fitness landscapes and relating them to problem difficulty

I Moser, M Gheorghita, A Aleti - Evolutionary computation, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
… The fitness distance correlation (FDC) (Jones and Forrest, 1995b) was first … of genetic
algorithms (GA) against different fitness functions. It measures the correlation between the fitness of …

Models to classify the difficulty of genetic algorithms to solve continuous optimization problems

NE Rodríguez-Maya, JJ Flores, S Verel, M Graff - Natural Computing, 2023 - Springer
… of the most successful metrics: Fitness Distance Correlation, and Negative Slope … difficulty
is the Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm (RCGA). To assign a difficulty measure for each problem, …

Adaptive complex network topology with fitness distance correlation framework for particle swarm optimization

W Li, B Sun, Y Huang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… by Jones 30 in 1995 to measure the difficulty of the problem. In this study, … fitness distance
correlation is used to solve the problem by a genetic algorithm, and the difficulty of the problem

Level-based analysis of genetic algorithms and other search processes

D Corus, DC Dang, AV Eremeev… - … on Evolutionary …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
algorithms (EAs) depend on their parameter settings and characteristics of fitness landscapes
is a fundamental problem in evolutionary … limit, from which it is difficult to derive statements …

Genetic algorithms

LJ Eshelman - Evolutionary Computation 1, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
… Hence the measure of fitness used in calculating the … individual’s absolute fitness, but its
fitness relative to the worst … of difficult problems using fast messy genetic algorithms Proc. 5th Int. …

Utility of genetic algorithms for solving large-scale construction time-cost trade-off problems

D Agdas, DJ Warne, J Osio-Norgaard… - Journal of Computing in …, 2018 - ascelibrary.org
… how to encode the problem, evaluate fitness, and use a … fitness assessment step of GA
development. The results section includes discussions on how to solve the benchmark problems

Classification of permutation distance metrics for fitness landscape analysis

VA Cicirello - … Technologies: 11th EAI International Conference, BICT …, 2019 - Springer
… , fitness distance correlation is Pearson correlation between … genetic algorithms and other
forms of evolutionary computation. A … difficulty for genetic algorithms. In: Proceedings of the 6th …

Population size, building blocks, fitness landscape and genetic algorithm search efficiency in combinatorial optimization: an empirical study

JT Alander - Practical Handbook of Genetic Algorithms, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
… The last and most difficult problem for a genetic algorithm is what we call the folding snake.
The “toy snake” consists of 27 small cubic bricks arranged like a string of pearls, each brick …

A novel stochastic fractal search algorithm with fitness-distance balance for global numerical optimization

S Aras, E Gedikli, HT Kahraman - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2021 - Elsevier
algorithms. For example, hundreds of variations have been developed for the Genetic Algorithm
… To alleviate this difficulty, the newly proposed MHS algorithms should be compared with …