Evolutionary Computation 1

Basic Algorithm and Operators

Thomas Baeck, David B. Fogel, Zbigniew Michalewicz

340 pages, parution le 07/02/2003

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Résumé

This volume discusses the basic ideas which underlie the main paradigms of evolutionary algorithms, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, genetic programming.

Contents

PART 1 WHY EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION?
1. Introduction to evolutionary computation.
2. Possible applications of evolutationary computation.
3. Advantages (and disadvantages) of evolutionary computation over other approaches.
PART 2. EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION: THE BACKGROUND.
4. Principles of evolutionary processes.
5. Principles of genetics.
6. A history of evolutionary computation.
PART 3 EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS AND THEIR STANDARD INSTANCES.
7. Introduction to evolutionary algorithms.
8. Genetic algorithms.
9. Evolution strategies.
10. Evolutionary programming.
11. Derivative methods in genetic programming.
12. Learning classifier systems.
13. Hybrid methods.
PART 4. REPRESENTATIONS.
14. Introduction to representations.
15. Binary strings.
16. Real-valued vectors.
17. Permutations.
18. Finite-state representations.
19. Parse trees.
20. Guidelines for a suitable encoding.
21. Other representations.
PART 5. SELECTION.
22. Introduction to selection.
23. Proportionary selection and sampling algorithms.
24. Tournament selection.
25. Rank-based selection.
26. Boltzmann selection.
27. Other selection methods.
28. Generation gap methods.
29. A comparison of selection mechanisms.
30. Interactive evolution.
PART 6. SEARCH OPERATORS.
31. Introduction to search operators.
32. Mutation operators.
33. Recombination.
34. Other operators.
Index.

L'auteur - Thomas Baeck

Ed. Thomas Baeck, University of Dortmund, Germany;

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Institute of Physics (IOP)
Auteur(s)	Thomas Baeck, David B. Fogel, Zbigniew Michalewicz
Parution	07/02/2003
Nb. de pages	340
Format	16,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	640g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780750306645
ISBN13	978-0-7503-0664-5