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Efficiency speed-up strategies for evolutionary computation: Fundamentals and fast-GAs

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Abstract

The efficiency speed-up strategies for evolutionary computation were discussed. Incorporation of the strategies with any known evolutionary algorithm leads to an accelerated version of the algorithm. An arbitrarily high-precision (resolution) solution of a high-dimensional problem was obtained by means of a successive low-resolution search in low-dimensional search spaces. The fast-genetic algorithms were experimentally tested with a test suit containing 10 complex multimodal function optimization problems.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)341-388
Number of pages48
JournalApplied Mathematics and Computation
Volume142
Issue number2-3
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Oct 2003

Keywords

  • Efficiency speed-up
  • Evolutionary computation
  • Exclusion-based selection operator
  • Genetic algorithms
  • Refined cellular partioning
  • Reinitialization
  • Space discretization
  • Space shrinking
  • Splicing/decomposable representation scheme

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