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Evolution Strategies are inspired in biology and part of a larger research field known as Evolutionary Algorithms. Those strategies perform a random search in the space of admissible functions, aiming to optimize some given objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-12-30 Pedro A. F. Cruz , Delfim F. M. Torres

Mathematical formulas serve as a language through which humans communicate with nature. Discovering mathematical laws from scientific data to describe natural phenomena has been a long-standing pursuit of humanity for centuries. In the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yanjie Li , Liping Zhang , Min Wu , Weijun Li , Lina Yu , Jingyi Liu , Yusong Deng , Mingzhu Wan , Xin Ning

Natural groups of animals, such as swarms of social insects, exhibit astonishing degrees of task specialization, useful to address complex tasks and to survive. This is supported by phenotypic plasticity: individuals sharing the same…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Fuda van Diggelen , Matteo De Carlo , Nicolas Cambier , Eliseo Ferrante , A. E. Eiben

In this paper, a new meta-heuristic algorithm, called beetle swarm optimization algorithm, is proposed by enhancing the performance of swarm optimization through beetle foraging principles. The performance of 23 benchmark functions is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Tiantian Wang , Long Yang

This paper combines the idea of a hierarchical distributed genetic algorithm with different inter-agent partnering strategies. Cascading clusters of sub-populations are built from bottom up, with higher-level sub-populations optimising…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Uwe Aickelin , Larry Bull

An evolutionary approach for computing the winning strategy for Nim-like games is proposed in this paper. The winning strategy is computed by using the Multi Expression Programming (MEP) technique - a fast and efficient variant of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Mihai Oltean

We propose a framework of genetic algorithms which use multi-level hierarchies to solve an optimization problem by searching over the space of simpler objective functions. We solve a variant of Travelling Salesman Problem called…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Harshavardhan Kamarthi , Kousik Krishnan

Emerging applications in engineering such as crowd-sourcing and (mis)information propagation involve a large population of heterogeneous users or agents in a complex network who strategically make dynamic decisions. In this work, we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Yezekael Hayel , Quanyan Zhu

Bio-hybrid systems---close couplings of natural organisms with technology---are high potential and still underexplored. In existing work, robots have mostly influenced group behaviors of animals. We explore the possibilities of mixing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Mostafa Wahby , Mary Katherine Heinrich , Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler , Payam Zahadat , Sebastian Risi , Phil Ayres , Thomas Schmickl , Heiko Hamann

Genetic Regulatory Networks (GRNs) plays a vital role in the understanding of complex biological processes. Modeling GRNs is significantly important in order to reveal fundamental cellular processes, examine gene functions and understanding…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2012-05-10 Khalid Raza , Rafat Parveen

Evolutionary Computation has been successfully used to synthesise controllers for embodied agents and multi-agent systems in general. Notwithstanding this, continuous on-line adaptation by the means of evolutionary algorithms is still…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-04 Davide Nunes , Luis Antunes

This paper addresses the optimization of human-robot collaborative work-cells before their physical deployment. Most of the times, such environments are designed based on the experience of the system integrators, often leading to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Christian Cella , Matteo Bruce Robin , Marco Faroni , Andrea Maria Zanchettin , Paolo Rocco

Recent work has proven the existence of extreme inbreeding in a European ancestry sample taken from the contemporary UK population \cite{nature_01}. This result brings our attention again to a math problem related to inbreeding family trees…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-08 C. Jarne , F A. Gómez Albarracín , M. Caruso

Algorithms that use Large Language Models (LLMs) to evolve code arrived on the Genetic Programming (GP) scene very recently. We present LLM GP, a formalized LLM-based evolutionary algorithm designed to evolve code. Like GP, it uses…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Erik Hemberg , Stephen Moskal , Una-May O'Reilly

Evolutionary algorithms have been frequently used for dynamic optimization problems. With this paper, we contribute to the theoretical understanding of this research area. We present the first computational complexity analysis of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Frank Neumann , Carsten Witt

We introduce Genetic AI, a novel method for multi-objective optimization without external parameters or predefined weights. The method can be applied to all problems that can be formulated in matrix form and allows for a data-less training…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Philipp Wissgott

Neuro-encoded expression programming(NEEP) that aims to offer a novel continuous representation of combinatorial encoding for genetic programming methods is proposed in this paper. Genetic programming with linear representation uses…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Aftab Anjum , Fengyang Sun , Lin Wang , Jeff Orchard

In this paper we introduce Shackleton as a generalized framework enabling the application of linear genetic programming -- a technique under the umbrella of evolutionary algorithms -- to a variety of use cases. We also explore here a novel…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Hannah Peeler , Shuyue Stella Li , Andrew N. Sloss , Kenneth N. Reid , Yuan Yuan , Wolfgang Banzhaf

Evolutionary algorithms are wildly used in unmanned aerial vehicle path planning for their flexibility and effectiveness. Nevertheless, they are so sensitive to the change of environment that can't adapt to all scenarios. Due to this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Jiabin Lou , Rong Ding , Wenjun Wu

Genetic algorithms are considered as one of the most efficient search techniques. Although they do not offer an optimal solution, their ability to reach a suitable solution in considerably short time gives them their respectable role in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Ayman M. Bahaa-Eldin , A. M. A. Wahdan , H. M. K. Mahdi