For questions related to evolutionary computation approaches, which includes swarm intelligence and evolutionary algorithms (such as genetic algorithms), among other approaches.
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What is the difference between memetic algorithms and genetic algorithms?
What is the difference between memetic algorithms and genetic algorithms? Is an individual's lifetime a learning part of memetic algorithms?
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What evolutionary algorithms are there that model epigenetics?
What evolutionary algorithms are there that model or incorporate some notion of epigenetics? What are the pros/cons of those approaches? Are there vast insufficiencies or wide-open questions about their usefulness?
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What is the difference between evolutionary computation and evolutionary algorithms?
A book on evolutionary computation by De Jong mentions both the term evolutionary algorithms (EA) as well as evolutionary computation (EC). However, it remains unclear to me what the difference between the two is. According to Vikhar, EA forms a…
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Why do all nodes in a GP tree need to be the same type?
Context: I'm a complete beginner to evolutionary algorithms and genetic algorithms and programming. I'm currently taking a course about genetic algorithms and genetic programming.
One of the concepts introduced in the course is "closure," the idea…
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How to design a fitness function for the 8-queens problem?
In evolutionary computation and, in particular, in the context of genetic algorithms, there is the concept of a fitness function. The better a state, the greater the value of the fitness function for that state.
What would be a good fitness function…
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Evolutionary Programming: Self-Adaption (Multiplicative methods) Where is the self-adaption?
Good day.
I have been playing around with Evolutionary Programming (Evolutionary Algorithm variation) lately, specifically self-adaption where the strategy parameters evolves with the solution.
With the additive technique, the theory gives (Fogel,…
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