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The balance of exploration versus exploitation (EvE) is a key issue on evolutionary computation. In this paper we will investigate how an adaptive controller aimed to perform Operator Selection can be used to dynamically manage the EvE…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-08 Giacomo di Tollo , Frédéric Lardeux , Jorge Maturana , Frédéric Saubion

Inspired by natural evolution, evolutionary search algorithms have proven remarkably capable due to their dual abilities to radiantly explore through diverse populations and to converge to adaptive pressures. A large part of this behavior…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Kevin Frans , L. B. Soros , Olaf Witkowski

Natural evolution gives the impression of leading to an open-ended process of increasing diversity and complexity. If our goal is to produce such open-endedness artificially, this suggests an approach driven by evolutionary metaphor. On the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-12-13 Nicholas Guttenberg , Nathaniel Virgo , Alexandra Penn

Evolutionary Computation (EC) has emerged as a powerful field of Artificial Intelligence, inspired by nature's mechanisms of gradual development. However, EC approaches often face challenges such as stagnation, diversity loss, computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Abdennour Boulesnane

Initial population plays an important role in heuristic algorithms such as GA as it help to decrease the time those algorithms need to achieve an acceptable result. Furthermore, it may influence the quality of the final answer given by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Erfan Khaji , Amin Satlikh Mohammadi

In distributed evolutionary algorithms, migration interval is used to decide migration moments. Nevertheless, migration moments predetermined by intervals cannot match the dynamic situation of evolution. In this paper, a scheme of setting…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Chengjun Li , Jia Wu

A hybrid evolutionary algorithm with importance sampling method is proposed for multi-dimensional optimization problems in this paper. In order to make use of the information provided in the search process, a set of visited solutions is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-26 Guanghui Huang , Zhifeng Pan

When biological populations expand into new territory, the evolutionary outcomes can be strongly influenced by genetic drift, the random fluctuations in allele frequencies. Meanwhile, spatial variability in the environment can also…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-27 Jimmy Gonzalez Nuñez , Jayson Paulose , Wolfram Möbius , Daniel A. Beller

Evolutionary algorithms excel in solving complex optimization problems, especially those with multiple objectives. However, their stochastic nature can sometimes hinder rapid convergence to the global optima, particularly in scenarios…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Zeyi Wang , Songbai Liu , Jianyong Chen , Kay Chen Tan

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

Metaheuristics (MHs) in general and Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) in particular are well known tools for successful optimization of difficult problems. But when is their application meaningful and how does one approach such a project as a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Wilfried Jakob

Unsupervised person re-identification has achieved great success through the self-improvement of individual neural networks. However, limited by the lack of diversity of discriminant information, a single network has difficulty learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Yunpeng Zhai , Peixi Peng , Mengxi Jia , Shiyong Li , Weiqiang Chen , Xuesong Gao , Yonghong Tian

Poaching poses significant threats to wildlife and biodiversity. A valuable step in reducing poaching is to forecast poacher behavior, which can inform patrol planning and other conservation interventions. Existing poaching prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Lingkai Kong , Haichuan Wang , Charles A. Emogor , Vincent Börsch-Supan , Lily Xu , Milind Tambe

Microbiological systems evolve to fulfill their tasks with maximal efficiency. The immune system is a remarkable example, where self-non self distinction is accomplished by means of molecular interaction between self proteins and antigens,…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2013-08-26 Marcio Argollo de Menezes , Edgardo Brigatti , Veit Schwämmle

Evolutionary algorithms are bio-inspired algorithms that can easily adapt to changing environments. Recent results in the area of runtime analysis have pointed out that algorithms such as the (1+1)~EA and Global SEMO can efficiently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Vahid Roostapour , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) serve as powerful black-box optimizers inspired by biological evolution. However, most existing EAs predominantly focus on heuristic operators such as crossover and mutation, while usually overlooking…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kaichen Ouyang , Mingyang Yu , Zong Ke , Junbo Jacob Lian , Shengwei Fu , Xiaoyang Hao , Shengju Yu , Dayu Hu

Computing diverse sets of high quality solutions for a given optimization problem has become an important topic in recent years. In this paper, we introduce a coevolutionary Pareto Diversity Optimization approach which builds on the success…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Aneta Neumann , Denis Antipov , Frank Neumann

We study a complementarity game as a systematic tool for the investigation of the interplay between individual optimization and population effects and for the comparison of different strategy and learning schemes. The game randomly pairs…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2010-11-17 Juergen Jost , Wei Li

Artificial life aims to understand the fundamental principles of biological life by creating computational models that exhibit life-like properties. Although artificial life systems show promise for simulating biological evolution,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Niko Lorantos , Lee Spector

We consider the hypothesis that Evolution promotes population-wide genome patterns that, under randomization, ensures the External Validity of adaptations across population members. An adaptation is Externally Valid (EV) if its effect holds…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-17 Andre F. Ribeiro