Parallel Problem Solving from Nature — PPSN VII: 7th International Conference Granada, Spain, September 7–11, 2002 Proceedings

Random Dynamics Optimum Tracking with Evolution Strategies....Pages 3-12
On the Behavior of Evolutionary Global-Local Hybrids with Dynamic Fitness Functions....Pages 13-22
Measuring the Searched Space to Guide Efficiency: The Principle and Evidence on Constraint Satisfaction....Pages 23-32
On the Analysis of Dynamic Restart Strategies for Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 33-43
Running Time Analysis of Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms on a Simple Discrete Optimization Problem....Pages 44-53
Fitness Landscapes Based on Sorting and Shortest Paths Problems....Pages 54-63
Performance Measures for Dynamic Environments....Pages 64-73
Direct Representation and Variation Operators for the Fixed Charge Transportation Problem....Pages 77-87
On the Utility of Redundant Encodings in Mutation-Based Evolutionary Search....Pages 88-98
Binary Representations of Integers and the Performance of Selectorecombinative Genetic Algorithms....Pages 99-108
Parallel Varying Mutation in Deterministic and Self-adaptive GAs....Pages 111-121
Self-organizing Maps for Pareto Optimization of Airfoils....Pages 122-131
On Fitness Distributions and Expected Fitness Gain of Mutation Rates in Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 132-141
Opposites Attract: Complementary Phenotype Selection for Crossover in Genetic Programming....Pages 142-152
Theoretical Analysis of the Confidence Interval Based Crossover for Real-Coded Genetic Algorithms....Pages 153-161
Deterministic Multi-step Crossover Fusion: A Handy Crossover Composition for GAs....Pages 162-171
Operator Learning for a Problem Class in a Distributed Peer-to-Peer Environment....Pages 172-183
Crossover Operator Effect in Function Optimization with Constraints....Pages 184-193
Reducing Random Fluctuations in Mutative Self-adaptation....Pages 194-203
On Weight-Biased Mutation for Graph Problems....Pages 204-213
Self-adaptive Operator Scheduling Using the Religion-Based EA....Pages 214-223
Probabilistic Model-Building Genetic Algorithms in Permutation Representation Domain Using Edge Histogram....Pages 224-233
From Syntactical to Semantical Mutation Operators for Structure Optimization....Pages 234-243
Parameter Control within a Co-operative Co-evolutionary Genetic Algorithm....Pages 247-256
The Effects of Representational Bias on Collaboration Methods in Cooperative Coevolution....Pages 257-268
Parallel and Hybrid Models for Multi-objective Optimization: Application to the Vehicle Routing Problem....Pages 271-280
Multiobjective Design Optimization of Merging Configuration for an Exhaust Manifold of a Car Engine....Pages 281-287
Multi-objective Co-operative Co-evolutionary Genetic Algorithm....Pages 288-297
Bayesian Optimization Algorithms for Multi-objective Optimization....Pages 298-307
An Evolutionary Algorithm for Controlling Chaos: The Use of Multi—objective Fitness Functions....Pages 308-317
On Modelling Evolutionary Algorithm Implementations through Co-operating Populations....Pages 321-330
Permutation Optimization by Iterated Estimation of Random Keys Marginal Product Factorizations....Pages 331-340
Advanced Population Diversity Measures in Genetic Programming....Pages 341-350
Introducing Start Expression Genes to the Linkage Learning Genetic Algorithm....Pages 351-360
Metamodel—Assisted Evolution Strategies....Pages 361-370
Limiting the Number of Fitness Cases in Genetic Programming Using Statistics....Pages 371-380
Resource-Based Fitness Sharing....Pages 381-390
Evolution Strategy with Neighborhood Attraction Using a Neural Gas Approach....Pages 391-400
A New Asynchronous Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm for Function Optimization....Pages 401-410
Fighting Bloat with Nonparametric Parsimony Pressure....Pages 411-421
Increasing the Serial and the Parallel Performance of the CMA-Evolution Strategy with Large Populations....Pages 422-431
Adaptive Reservoir Genetic Algorithm with On-Line Decision Making....Pages 432-441
Genetic Algorithm Visualization Using Self-organizing Maps....Pages 442-451
Generalised Regression GA for Handling Inseparable Function Interaction: Algorithm and Applications....Pages 452-461
Diversity-Guided Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 462-471
Evolutionary Optimization of Heterogeneous Problems....Pages 475-484
Automatic Recurrent and Feed-Forward ANN Rule and Expression Extraction with Genetic Programming....Pages 485-494
Learning and Evolution by Minimization of Mutual Information....Pages 495-504
Evolved RBF Networks for Time-Series Forecasting and Function Approximation....Pages 505-514
Evolutive Identification of Fuzzy Systems for Time-Series Prediction....Pages 517-526
HyGLEAM–An Approach to Generally Applicable Hybridization of Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 527-536
Co-evolving Memetic Algorithms: Initial Investigations....Pages 537-546
Consideration of Multiple Objectives in Neural Learning Classifier Systems....Pages 549-557
On Using Constructivism in Neural Classifier Systems....Pages 558-567
Initial Modifications to XCS for Use in Interactive Evolutionary Design....Pages 568-577
First Results from Experiments in Fuzzy Classifier System Architectures for Mobile Robotics....Pages 578-587
TCS Learning Classifier System Controller on a Real Robot....Pages 588-597
Comparing Synchronous and Asynchronous Cellular Genetic Algorithms....Pages 601-610
Satellite Range Scheduling: A Comparison of Genetic, Heuristic and Local Search....Pages 611-620
The LifeCycle Model: Combining Particle Swarm Optimisation, Genetic Algorithms and HillClimbers....Pages 621-630
Metaheuristics for Group Shop Scheduling....Pages 631-640
Experimental Investigation of Three Distributed Genetic Programming Models....Pages 641-650
Model-Based Search for Combinatorial Optimization: A Comparative Study....Pages 651-661
A Framework for Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 665-675
Optimisation of Multilayer Perceptrons Using a Distributed Evolutionary Algorithm with SOAP....Pages 676-685
Off-Line Evolution of Behaviour for Autonomous Agents in Real-Time Computer Games....Pages 689-699
A Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm for Stochastic Natural Language Parsing....Pages 700-709
Evolutionary Learning of Boolean Queries by Multiobjective Genetic Programming....Pages 710-719
Inferring Phylogenetic Trees Using Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 720-729
Towards a More E.cient Evolutionary Induction of Bayesian Networks....Pages 730-739
Robust Multiscale A.ne 2D-Image Registration through Evolutionary Strategies....Pages 740-748
Synthesizing Graphical Models Employing Explaining Away....Pages 749-758
Constructive Geometric Constraint Solving: A New Application of Genetic Algorithms....Pages 759-768
Multimeme Algorithms for Protein Structure Prediction....Pages 769-778
A Dynamic Traffic Model for Frequency Assignment....Pages 779-788
A Parameter-Free Genetic Algorithm for a Fixed Channel Assignment Problem with Limited Bandwidth....Pages 789-799
Real-Coded Parameter-Free Genetic Algorithm for Job-Shop Scheduling Problems....Pages 800-810
Clustering Gene Expression Profiles with Memetic Algorithms....Pages 811-820
Cellular Automata and Genetic Algorithms for Parallel Problem Solving in Human Genetics....Pages 821-830
Evolutionary Graph Generation System and Its Application to Bit-Serial Arithmetic Circuit Synthesis....Pages 831-840
Evaluating Multi-criteria Evolutionary Algorithms for Airfoil Optimisation....Pages 841-850
Hyperheuristics: A Robust Optimisation Method Applied to Nurse Scheduling....Pages 851-860
Evolving the Topology of Hidden Markov Models Using Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 861-870
Solving a Real World Routing Problem Using Multiple Evolutionary Agents....Pages 871-880
An Ant Colony Optimization Approach to the Probabilistic Traveling Salesman Problem....Pages 883-892
When Model Bias Is Stronger than Selection Pressure....Pages 893-902
Evolution of Asynchronous Cellular Automata....Pages 903-912
Improved Ant-Based Clustering and Sorting in a Document Retrieval Interface....Pages 913-923
An Adaptive Flocking Algorithm for Spatial Clustering....Pages 924-933
Evolution of Asynchronous Cellular Automata for the Density Task....Pages 934-943