This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 9th Workshop on the Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, FOGA 2007, held in Mexico City, Mexico in January 2007.
The 11 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 22 submissions. The papers address all current topics in the field of theoretical evolutionary computation including evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, and genetic programming, and also depict the continuing growth in interactions with other fields such as mathematics, physics, and biology.
Author(s): Alberto Moraglio, Riccardo Poli (auth.), Christopher R. Stephens, Marc Toussaint, Darrell Whitley, Peter F. Stadler (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4436
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 216
Tags: Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics and Population Dynamics
Front Matter....Pages -
Inbreeding Properties of Geometric Crossover and Non-geometric Recombinations....Pages 1-14
Just What Are Building Blocks?....Pages 15-34
Sufficient Conditions for Coarse-Graining Evolutionary Dynamics....Pages 35-53
On the Brittleness of Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 54-69
Mutative Self-adaptation on the Sharp and Parabolic Ridge....Pages 70-96
Genericity of the Fixed Point Set for the Infinite Population Genetic Algorithm....Pages 97-109
Neighborhood Graphs and Symmetric Genetic Operators....Pages 110-122
Decomposition of Fitness Functions in Random Heuristic Search....Pages 123-137
On the Effects of Bit-Wise Neutrality on Fitness Distance Correlation, Phenotypic Mutation Rates and Problem Hardness....Pages 138-164
Continuous Optimisation Theory Made Easy? Finite-Element Models of Evolutionary Strategies, Genetic Algorithms and Particle Swarm Optimizers....Pages 165-193
Saddles and Barrier in Landscapes of Generalized Search Operators....Pages 194-212
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