Foundations of genetic algorithms 6 / edited by Worthy N. Martin and William M. Spears.

Other author Martin, W. N. (Worthy N.)
Other author Spears, William M., 1962-
Other author Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms 2000 : Charlottesville, Va.)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoSan Francisco, Calif. : Morgan Kaufmann,
Description342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from eBook - Computer Science 1995 - 2006
Subjects
Genetic algorithms--Congresses.

Variant title Foundations of genetic algorithms six
SeriesThe Morgan Kaufmann series in evolutionary computation, 1081-6593
Contents Machine generated contents note: Introduction-- Worthy N. Martin and William M. Spears -- Overcoming Fitness Barriers in Multi-Modal Search Spaces5 -- Martin J. Oates and David Come -- N iches in N K -Landscapes27 -- Keith E. Mathia, Larry J. Eshelman, and J. David Schaffer -- New Methods for Tunable, Random Landscapes 47 -- R. E. Smith and J. E. Smith -- Analysis of Recombinative Algorithms on a Non-Separable Building-Block Problem69 -- Richard A. Watson -- Direct Statistical Estimation of GA Landscape Properties 91 -- Colin R. Reeves -- Comparing Population Mean Curves109 -- B. Naudts and I. Landrieu -- Local Performance of the ((/(I, () -ES in a Noisy Environment 127 -- Dirk V Arnold and Hans-Georg Beyer -- Recursive Conditional Scheme Theorem, Convergence and -- Population Sizing in Genetic Algorithms 143 -- Riccardo Poli -- Towards a Theory of Strong Overgeneral Classifiers 165 -- Tim Kovacs -- Evolutionary Optimization through PAC Learning 185 -- Forbes J. Burkowski -- Continuous Dynamical System Models of Steady-State Genetic Algorithms209 -- Alden H. Wright and Jonathan E. Rowe -- Mutation-Selection Algorithm: A Large Deviation Approach 227 -- Paul Albuquerque and Christian Mazza -- The Equilibrium and Transient Behavior of Mutation and Recombination 241 -- William M. Spears -- The Mixing Rate of Different Crossover Operators 261 -- Adam Prigel-Bennett -- Dynamic Parameter Control in Simple Evolutionary Algorithms 275 -- Stefan Droste, Thomas Jansen, and Ingo Wegener -- Local Search and High Precision Gray Codes: Convergence Results and Neighborhoods295 -- Darrell Whitley, Laura Barbulescu, and Jean-Paul Watson -- Burden and Benefits of Redundancy 313 -- Karsten Weicker and Nicole Weicker -- Author Index 335 -- Key Word Index337.
General note"The 2000 Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA-6) workshop was the sixth biennial meeting in this series of workshops"--P. 1.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
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