Artificial Evolution

Inhalt

Theory.- Extremal Optimization Dynamics in Neutral Landscapes: The Royal Road Case.- Improving the Scalability of EA Techniques: A Case Study in Clustering.- Ant Colony Optimization.- MC-ANT: A Multi-Colony Ant Algorithm.- Applications.- Artificial Evolution for 3D PET Reconstruction.- A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm/Variable Neighborhood Search Approach to Maximizing Residual Bandwidth of Links for Route Planning.- Parallelization of an Evolutionary Algorithm on a Platform with Multi-core Processors.- On the Difficulty of Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks: A Study of the Fitness Landscape Generated by Relative Squared Error.- Combinatorial Optimization.- Memetic Algorithms for Constructing Binary Covering Arrays of Strength Three.- A Priori Knowledge Integration in Evolutionary Optimization.- Robotics.- On-Line, On-Board Evolution of Robot Controllers.- The Transfer of Evolved Artificial Immune System Behaviours between Small and Large Scale Robotic Platforms.- Multi-objective Optimization.- An Analysis of Algorithmic Components for Multiobjective Ant Colony Optimization: A Case Study on the Biobjective TSP.- Alternative Fitness Assignment Methods for Many-Objective Optimization Problems.- Genetic Programming.- Evolving Efficient List Search Algorithms.- Semantic Similarity Based Crossover in GP: The Case for Real-Valued Function Regression.- Genetic-Programming Based Prediction of Data Compression Saving.- Machine Learning.- On the Characteristics of Sequential Decision Problems and Their Impact on Evolutionary Computation and Reinforcement Learning.