Evolutionary Computation 2

Advanced Algorithms and Operators

Edited by Thomas Baeck, D.B Fogel, Z Michalewicz

  • Price: $63.95
  • Binding/Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 978-0-7503-0665-2
  • Publish Date: November 19th 2000
  • Imprint: Taylor & Francis
  • Pages: 270 pages

Description

Evolutionary Computation 2: Advanced Algorithms and Operators expands upon the basic ideas underlying evolutionary algorithms. The focus is on fitness evaluation, constraint-handling techniques, population structures, advanced techniques in evolutionary computation, and the implementation of evolutionary algorithms. It is intended to be used by individual researchers and students in the expanding field of evolutionary computation.

Contents

FITNESS EVALUATION

Introduction to fitness evaluation

Encoding and decoding functions

Competitive fitness evaluation

Complexity-based fitness evaluation

Multiobjective optimization

CONSTRAINT-HANDLING TECHNIQUES

Introduction to constraint-handling techniques

Penalty functions

Decoders

Repair algorithms

Constraint-preserving operators

Other constraint-handling methods

Constraint-satisfaction problems

POPULATION STRUCTURES

Niching methods

Speciation methods

Island (migration) models: evolutionary algorithms based on punctuated equilibria

Diffusion (cellular) models

ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION

Population sizing

Mutation parameters

Recombination parameters

Parameter control

Self-adaptation

Meta-evolutionary approaches

Coevolutionary algorithms

IMPLEMENTATION OF EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS

Efficient implementation of algorithms

Computation time of evolutionary operators

Hardware realizations of evolutionary algorithms

INDEX

 

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