GS Hornby - Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
To reduce the problem of premature convergence we define a new method for measuring an individual's age and propose the Age-Layered Population Structure (ALPS). This new …
N Kubota, K Shimojima… - Proceedings of IEEE …, 1996 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper deals with a genetic algorithm based on virus theory of evolution (VEGA). The VEGA realizes horizontal propagation and vertical inheritance of genetic information in a …
N Casas - arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.05342, 2015 - arxiv.org
In this article we provide a comprehensive review of the different evolutionary algorithm techniques used to address multimodal optimization problems, classifying them according to …
J Zhang, X Yao, J Zhou, J Jiang… - 2017 5th international …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The changes of market, the shift of manufacturing paradigm, the evolution of devices, and the emergence of new technologies, require and drive manufacturing to be flexible …
JC Bongard, GS Hornby - Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
The fundamental dichotomy in evolutionary algorithms is that between exploration and exploitation. Recently, several algorithms [8, 9, 14, 16, 17, 20] have been introduced that …
GS Hornby - Genetic Programming Theory and Practice VII, 2010 - Springer
Abstract The Age-Layered Population Structure (ALPS) paradigm is a novel metaheuristic for overcoming premature convergence by running multiple instances of a search algorithm …
N Kubota, T Fukuda, K Shimojima - Computers & industrial engineering, 1996 - Elsevier
A virus-evolutionary genetic algorithm (VEGA) based on virus theory of evolution is proposed. The VEGA is composed of a host population of candidate solutions and a virus …
GS Hornby - Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference on Genetic …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
The objectives of this paper are to describe a steady-state version of the Age-Layered Population Structure (ALPS) Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) and to compare it against other …
To automatically determine the number of clusters and generate more quality clusters while clustering data samples, we propose a harmonious genetic clustering algorithm, named …