Artificial Evolution: Third European Conference, AE '97, Nimes, France, October 22-24, 1997, Selected Papers

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Jin-Kao Hao
Springer Science & Business Media, Feb 18, 1998 - Computers - 347 pages
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third European Conference on Artificial Evolution, AE '97, held in Nimes, France, in October 1997. The volume presents 22 revised full papers carefully selected for inclusion together with an invited survey on the state-of-the-art in scatter search by Fred Glover. The papers are organized in topical sections on genetic-algorithm operators, applications in various areas, theoretical issues, methodologies, and evolvable hardware and robotics.
 

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Contents

A Template for Scatter Search and Path Relinking
3
Genetic Operators
53
Representations Fitness Functions and Genetic Operators for the Satisfiability Problem
55
Genetic Algorithms at the Edge of a Dream
69
Mimetic Evolution
81
Adaptive Penalties for Evolutionary Graph Coloring
95
Applications
107
An Agent System for Learning Profiles in Broadcasting Applications on the Internet
109
An Analysis of Punctuated Equilibria in Simple Genetic Algorithms
195
SGA Search Dynamics on Second Order Functions
207
Asymptotical Convergence Rates of Simple Evolutionary Algorithms under Factorizing Mutation Distributions
223
Methodologies
235
A Working Hypothesis and Basic Experiments
251
A Look at the Performance of Evolutionary Search
263
A Summary
275
No Universal Statistical Measure But a Set of Hints
287

Application of Evolutionary Algorithms to Protein Folding Prediction
123
Telephone Network Traffic Overloading Diagnosis and Evolutionary Computation Techniques
137
Genetic Algorithms for Genetic Mapping
145
A Solution Based on Genetic Algorithms
157
Evolving Turing Machines from Examples
167
Theory
181
Minimal Conditions for Convergence
183
Evolvable Hardware and Robotics
301
The Dynamical Nightwatchs Problem Solved by the Autonomous MicroRobot Khepera
303
A Simplified Cellular Automata Based Neuron Model
315
Million Module Neural Systems Evolution
335
Author Index
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