Self-organizing manufacturing network: A paradigm towards smart manufacturing in mass personalization

Z Qin, Y Lu - Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Mass personalization is becoming a reality. It requires responsive and flexible
manufacturing operations for producing individualized products in dynamic batch sizes at …

ALPS: the age-layered population structure for reducing the problem of premature convergence

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 …

The role of virus infection in virus-evolutionary genetic algorithm

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 …

Genetic algorithms for multimodal optimization: a review

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 …

Self-organizing manufacturing: Current status and prospect for Industry 4.0

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 …

Guarding against premature convergence while accelerating evolutionary search

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 …

A steady-state version of the age-layered population structure EA

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 …

Virus-evolutionary genetic algorithm for a self-organizing manufacturing system

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 …

Steady-state ALPS for real-valued problems

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 …

Harmonious genetic clustering

F Huang, X Li, S Zhang, J Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To automatically determine the number of clusters and generate more quality clusters while
clustering data samples, we propose a harmonious genetic clustering algorithm, named …