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Genetic Algorithms have established their capability for solving many complex optimization problems. Even as good solutions are produced, the user's understanding of a problem is not necessarily improved, which can lead to a lack of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 GianCarlo Catalano , Alexander E. I. Brownlee , David Cairns , John McCall , Russell Ainslie

Predicting the cheapest sample size for the optimal stratification in multivariate survey design is a problem in cases where the population frame is large. A solution exists that iteratively searches for the minimum sample size necessary to…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-06-18 Mervyn O'Luing , Steven Prestwich , S. Armagan Tarim

A formalism for describing the dynamics of Genetic Algorithms (GAs) using methods from statistical mechanics is applied to the problem of generalization in a perceptron with binary weights. The dynamics are solved for the case where a new…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Magnus Rattray , Jonathan Shapiro

Genetic data are often used to infer demographic history and changes or detect genes under selection. Inferential methods are commonly based on models making various strong assumptions: demography and population structures are supposed…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-28 Clotilde Lepers , Sylvain Billiard , Matthieu Porte , Sylvie Méléard , Viet Chi Tran

Genetic programming (GP) is an evolutionary computation technique to solve problems in an automated, domain-independent way. Rather than identifying the optimum of a function as in more traditional evolutionary optimization, the aim of GP…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Andrei Lissovoi , Pietro S. Oliveto

Theoretical analyses of stochastic search algorithms, albeit few, have always existed since these algorithms became popular. Starting in the nineties a systematic approach to analyse the performance of stochastic search heuristics has been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Per Kristian Lehre , Pietro S. Oliveto

Heuristic algorithms have shown a good ability to solve a variety of optimization problems. Stockpile blending problem as an important component of the mine scheduling problem is an optimization problem with continuous search space…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Yue Xie , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

Evolutionary game theory is a mathematical toolkit to analyse the interactions that an individual agent has in a population and how the composition of strategies in this population evolves over time. While it can provide neat solutions to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jacobus Smit , Ed Plumb

Genetic algorithms (GAs) emulate the process of biological evolution, in a computational setting, in order to generate good solutions to difficult search and optimisation problems. GA-based optimisers tend to be extremely robust and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-09 Vinesh Rajpaul

The rapid advances in the field of optimization methods in many pure and applied science pose the difficulty of keeping track of the developments as well as selecting an appropriate technique that best suits the problem in-hand. From a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-30 Loris Serafino

The experimenter must perform a legitimate search in the entire set of feasible censoring schemes to identify the optimal type II progressive censoring scheme, when applied to a life-testing experiment. Current recommendations are limited…

Applications · Statistics 2025-07-29 Ujjwal Roy , Ritwik Bhattacharya

In early-stage architectural design, optimization algorithms are essential for efficiently exploring large and complex design spaces under tight computational constraints. While prior research has benchmarked various optimization methods,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Farnaz Nazari , Wei Yan

Metaheuristic algorithms are currently widely used to solve a variety of optimization problems across various industries. This article discusses the application of a metaheuristic algorithm to optimize the hierarchical architecture of an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Ruslan Zakirzyanov

This research introduces an innovative mathematical learning approach that integrates generative AI to cultivate a structured learning rather than quick solution. Our method combines chatbot capabilities and generative AI to offer…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Aditi Singh , Abul Ehtesham , Saket Kumar , Gaurav Kumar Gupta , Tala Talaei Khoei

A theoretical approach relying on evolutionary population synthesis models could help refining the search criteria in deep galaxy surveys on the basis of a better knowledge of the expected apparent photometric properties of high-redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Buzzoni

While evolution has inspired algorithmic methods of heuristic optimisation, little has been done in the way of using concepts of computation to advance our understanding of salient aspects of biological phenomena. We argue that under…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-06-05 Hector Zenil , James A. R. Marshall

Multi-robot flocking possesses extraordinary advantages over a single-robot system in diverse domains, but it is challenging to ensure safe and optimal performance in congested environments. Hence, this paper is focused on the investigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Guobin Zhu , Qingrui Zhang , Bo Zhu , Tianjiang Hu

Among the evolutionary methods, one that is quite prominent is Genetic Programming, and, in recent years, a variant called Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming (GSGP) has shown to be successfully applicable to many real-world problems.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Mauro Castelli , Luca Manzoni , Luca Mariot , Giuliamaria Menara , Gloria Pietropolli

This paper presents an evolutionary algorithm with a new goal-sequence domination scheme for better decision support in multi-objective optimization. The approach allows the inclusion of advanced hard/soft priority and constraint…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-02 E. F. Khor , T. H. Lee , R. Sathikannan , K. C. Tan

Designing optimization approaches, whether heuristic or meta-heuristic, usually demands extensive manual intervention and has difficulty generalizing across diverse problem domains. The combination of Large Language Models (LLMs) and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-29 He Yu , Jing Liu