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We recently reported that the simple genetic algorithm (SGA) is capable of performing a remarkable form of sublinear computation which has a straightforward connection with the general problem of interacting attributes in data-mining. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-05-18 Keki M. Burjorjee

Genetic algorithms, computer programs that simulate natural evolution, are increasingly applied across many disciplines. They have been used to solve various optimisation problems from neural network architecture search to strategic games,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Aymeric Vie , Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis , Doyne J. Farmer

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…

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This paper presents a cumulative multi-niching genetic algorithm (CMN GA), designed to expedite optimization problems that have computationally-expensive multimodal objective functions. By never discarding individuals from the population,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-04-03 Matthew Hall

Scheduling problems are generally NP-hard combinatorial problems, and a lot of research has been done to solve these problems heuristically. However, most of the previous approaches are problem-specific and research into the development of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Jingpeng Li , Uwe Aickelin

With neural networks having demonstrated their versatility and benefits, the need for their optimal performance is as prevalent as ever. A defining characteristic, hyperparameters, can greatly affect its performance. Thus engineers go…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Keshav Ganapathy

There is an abundance of prior research on the optimization of production systems, but there is a research gap when it comes to optimizing which components should be included in a design, and how they should be connected. To overcome this…

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Projects consist of interconnected dimensions such as objective, time, resource and environment. Use of these dimensions in a controlled way and their effective scheduling brings the project success. Project scheduling process includes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Muhammed Hanefi Calp , Muhammet Ali Akcayol

Protein structure prediction can be shown to be an NP-hard problem; the number of conformations grows exponentially with the number of residues. The native conformations of proteins occupy a very small subset of these, hence an exploratory,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Mehul M. Khimasia , Peter V. Coveney

Metaheuristic algorithms, widely used for solving complex non-convex and non-differentiable optimization problems, often lack a solid mathematical foundation. In this review, we explore how concepts and methods from kinetic theory can offer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Giacomo Borghi , Michael Herty , Lorenzo Pareschi

Cellular automata are discrete and computational models thatcan be shown as general models of complexity. They are used in varied applications to derive the generalized behavior of the presented model. In this paper we have took one such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Karan Nayak

A Genetic Algorithm (GA) is proposed in which each member of the population can change schemata only with its neighbors according to a rule. The rule methodology and the neighborhood structure employ elements from the Cellular Automata (CA)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-11-16 Vasileios Barmpoutis , Gary F. Dargush

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

Molecular discovery has brought great benefits to the chemical industry. Various molecule design techniques are developed to identify molecules with desirable properties. Traditional optimization methods, such as genetic algorithms,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-05 Chris Zhuang , Debadyuti Mukherjee , Yingzhou Lu , Tianfan Fu , Ruqi Zhang

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has demonstrated significant potential in certain real-world industrial applications, yet its broader deployment remains limited by inherent challenges such as sample inefficiency and unstable learning dynamics.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Tom Maus , Asma Atamna , Tobias Glasmachers

Genetic algorithms (GAs) that solve hard problems quickly, reliably and accurately are called competent GAs. When the fitness landscape of a problem changes overtime, the problem is called non--stationary, dynamic or time--variant problem.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 H. A. Abbass , K. Sastry , D. E. Goldberg

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

Genetic algorithm (GA) is typically used to solve nonlinear model predictive control's optimization problem. However, the size of the search space in which the GA searches for the optimal control inputs is crucial for its applicability to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Eslam Mostafa , Hussein A. Aly , Ahmed Elliethy

We propose a genetic algorithm (GA) for hyperparameter optimization of artificial neural networks which includes chromosomal crossover as well as a decoupling of parameters (i.e., weights and biases) from hyperparameters (e.g., learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Aaron Vose , Jacob Balma , Alex Heye , Alessandro Rigazzi , Charles Siegel , Diana Moise , Benjamin Robbins , Rangan Sukumar