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GoTools is a program which solves life & death problems in the game of Go. This paper describes experiments using a Genetic Algorithm to optimize heuristic weights used by GoTools' tree-search. The complete set of heuristic weights is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Matthew Pratola , Thomas Wolf

Evolutionary algorithms are good general problem solver but suffer from a lack of domain specific knowledge. However, the problem specific knowledge can be added to evolutionary algorithms by hybridizing. Interestingly, all the elements of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Iztok Fister , Marjan Mernik , Janez Brest

The integration of advanced technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), into manufacturing processes is attracting significant attention, paving the way for the development of intelligent systems that enhance efficiency and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mohammadhossein Ghahramani , Yan Qiao , NaiQi Wu , Mengchu Zhou

In information retrieval research; Genetic Algorithms (GA) can be used to find global solutions in many difficult problems. This study used different similarity measures (Dice, Inner Product) in the VSM, for each similarity measure we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-12-03 Eman Al Mashagba , Feras Al Mashagba , Mohammad Othman Nassar

This paper presents the Goat Optimization Algorithm (GOA), a novel bio-inspired metaheuristic optimization technique inspired by goats' adaptive foraging, strategic movement, and parasite avoidance behaviors.GOA is designed to balance…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Hamed Nozari , Hoessein Abdi , Agnieszka Szmelter-Jarosz

The potential benefit of migrating software design from Structured to Object Oriented Paradigm is manifolded including modularity, manageability and extendability. This design migration should be automated as it will reduce the time…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Md. Selim , Saeed Siddik , Alim Ul Gias , M. Abdullah-Al-Wadud , Shah Mostafa Khaled

Solving an optimization task in any domain is a very challenging problem, especially when dealing with nonlinear problems and non-convex functions. Many meta-heuristic algorithms are very efficient when solving nonlinear functions. A…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Mona Nasr , Omar Farouk , Ahmed Mohamedeen , Ali Elrafie , Marwan Bedeir , Ali Khaled

We propose a gate-based Quantum Genetic Algorithm (QGA) for real-valued global optimization. In this model, individuals are represented by quantum circuits whose measurement outcomes are decoded into real-valued vectors through binary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Leandro C. Souza , Laurent E. Dardenne , Renato Portugal

An automated sizing approach for analog circuits using evolutionary algorithms is presented in this paper. A targeted search of the search space has been implemented using a particle generation function and a repair-bounds function that has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Ria Rashid , Gopavaram Raghunath , Vasant Badugu , Nandakumar Nambath

The concept of extended cloud requires efficient network infrastructure to support ecosystems reaching form the edge to the cloud(s). Standard approaches to network load balancing deliver static solutions that are insufficient for the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Marek Bolanowski , Alicja Gerka , Andrzej Paszkiewicz , Maria Ganzha , Marcin Paprzycki

In multiprocessor systems, one of the main factors of systems' performance is task scheduling. The well the task be distributed among the processors the well be the performance. Again finding the optimal solution of scheduling the tasks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Probir Roy , Md. Mejbah Ul Alam , Nishita Das

Genetic algorithm (GA) is an efficient tool for solving optimization problems by evolving solutions, as it mimics the Darwinian theory of natural evolution. The mutation operator is one of the key success factors in GA, as it is considered…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Esra'a Alkafaween , Ahmad B. A. Hassanat

The performance of GA is measured and analyzed in terms of its performance parameters against variations in its genetic operators and associated parameters. Since last four decades huge numbers of researchers have been working on the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-07 Anagha P. Khedkar , Shaila Subbaraman

Most real-world optimization problems are difficult to solve with traditional statistical techniques or with metaheuristics. The main difficulty is related to the existence of a considerable number of local optima, which may result in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Gloria Pietropolli , Giuliamaria Menara , Mauro Castelli

Image Registration (IR) is the process of aligning two (or more) images of the same scene taken at different times, different viewpoints and/or by different sensors. It is an important, crucial step in various image analysis tasks where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Sarit Chicotay , Eli David , Nathan S. Netanyahu

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 a Genetic Algorithm (GA), or a stochastic algorithm in general, is employed in a statistical problem, the obtained result is affected by both variability due to sampling, that refers to the fact that only a sample is observed, and…

Computation · Statistics 2019-03-07 Manuel Rizzo , Francesco Battaglia

To address the challenges of delayed scheduling information, heavy reliance on manual labour, and low operational efficiency in traditional large-scale agricultural machinery operations, this study proposes a method for multi-agricultural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Haohao Du

In the last decade the broad scope of complex networks has led to a rapid progress. In this area a particular interest has the study of community structures. The analysis of this type of structure requires the formalization of the intuitive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-12-07 Vincenza Carchiolo , Alessandro Longheu , Michele Malgeri , Giuseppe Mangioni

Genetic algorithms are a powerful tool in optimization for single and multi-modal functions. This paper provides an overview of their fundamentals with some analytical examples. In addition, we explore how they can be used as a parameter…