Evolutionary Programming VI: 6th International Conference, EP97 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, April 13–16, 1997 Proceedings

Complexity formalisms, order and disorder in the structure of art....Pages 1-12
Searching real-valued synaptic weights of Hopfield's associative memory using evolutionary programming....Pages 13-22
The application of evolutionary computation to selected problems in molecular biology....Pages 23-33
PEPNet: Parallel evolutionary programming for constructing artificial neural networks....Pages 35-45
Scaling behavior of the evolution strategy when evolving neuronal control architectures for autonomous agents....Pages 47-57
Swarm: An object oriented simulation platform applied to markets and organizations....Pages 59-71
An agent-based computational model for the evolution of trade networks....Pages 73-83
Performance enhanced genetic programming....Pages 85-100
Comparing subtree crossover with macromutation....Pages 101-111
Musica ex machina: Composing 16th-century counterpoint with genetic programming and symbiosis....Pages 113-123
Design of a high-gain operational amplifier and other circuits by means of genetic programming....Pages 125-135
Modeling speculators with genetic programming....Pages 137-147
Fast evolution strategies....Pages 149-161
Airspace congestion smoothing by stochastic optimization....Pages 163-176
Evolian: Evolutionary optimization based on lagrangian with constraint scaling....Pages 177-187
Solving static and dynamic fuzzy constraint networks using evolutionary hill-climbing....Pages 189-199
Applying family competition to evolution strategies for constrained optimization....Pages 201-211
Multi-operator evolutionary programming: A preliminary study on function optimization....Pages 213-221
Supporting polyploidy in genetic algorithms using dominance vectors....Pages 223-234
An individually variable mutation-rate strategy for genetic algorithms....Pages 235-245
Inductive learning of mutation step-size in evolutionary parameter optimization....Pages 247-261
A note on the escape probabilities for two alternative methods of selection under Gaussian mutation....Pages 263-274
Raising theoretical questions about the utility of genetic algorithms....Pages 275-284
Some geometric and algebraic results on crossover....Pages 285-295
An analysis of evolutionary algorithms based on neighbourhood and step sizes....Pages 297-307
Structuring pattern generalization through evolutionary techniques....Pages 309-321
A cultural algorithm framework to evolve multiagent cooperation with evolutionary programming....Pages 323-333
Tracking extrema in dynamic environments....Pages 335-345
The dynamics of evolution strategies in the optimization of traveling salesman problems....Pages 347-359
Exploring self-adaptive methods to improve the efficiency of generating approximate solutions to traveling salesman problems using evolutionary programming....Pages 361-371
Optimizing fuel distribution through evolutionary programming....Pages 373-381
Investigating parallel genetic algorithms on job shop scheduling problems....Pages 383-393
Using evolutionary programming for finite element problems....Pages 395-406
Gaining insight into evolutionary programming through landscape visualization: An investigation into IIR filtering....Pages 407-417
Evolution of intelligently interactive behaviors for simulated forces....Pages 419-429
Combining robot control strategies using genetic algorithms with memory....Pages 431-441
Using cultural algorithm with evolutionary computing to extract site location decisions from spatio-temporal databases....Pages 443-456