Evolutionary Algorithms
Subtitle: The Role of Mutation and Recombination
By: by William M. Spears
Series: Natural Computing Series; Natural Computing Series
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9783642086243; 9783662041994
Subjects: Biology; Computer science; Data processing; Combinatorics; Artificial intelligence; Computer software
Description: Despite decades of work in evolutionary algorithms, there remains a lot of uncertainty as to when it is beneficial or detrimental to use recombination or mutation. This book provides a characterization of the roles that recombination and mutation play in evolutionary algorithms. It integrates prior theoretical work and introduces new theoretical techniques for studying evolutionary algorithms. An aggregation algorithm for Markov chains is introduced which is useful for studying not only evolutionary algorithms specifically, but also complex systems in general. Practical consequences of the theory are explored and a novel method for comparing search and optimization algorithms is introduced. A focus on discrete rather than real-valued representations allows the book to bridge multiple communities, including evolutionary biologists and population geneticists.
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Table of contents: title: Glossary; title: Part I. Setting the Stage: Introduction; title: Background; title: Part II. Static Theoretical Analyses: A Survival Schema Theory for Recombination; title: A Construction Schema Theory for Recombination; title: Survival and Construction Schema Theory for Recombination; title: A Survival Schema Theory for Mutation; title: A Construction Schema Theory for Mutation; title: Schema Theory: Mutation versus Recombination; title: Other Static Characterizations of Mutation and Recombination; title: Part III. Dynamic Theoretical Analyses: Dynamic Analyses of Mutation and Recombination; title: A Dynamic Model of Selection and Mutation; title: A Dynamic Model of Selection, Recombination and Mutation; title: An Aggregation Algorithm for Markov Chains; title: Part IV. Empirical Analyses: Empirical Validation; title: Part V. Summary: Summary and Discussion; title: Appendix: Formal Computations for the Aggregation Algorithm; title: Bibliography.