Title :
Emphasizing extinction in evolutionary programming
Author :
Greewood, G.W. ; Fogel, Gary B. ; Ciobanu, Manuel
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Abstract :
Evolutionary programming typically uses tournament selection to choose parents for reproduction. Tournaments naturally emphasize survival. However, a natural opposite of survival is extinction, and a study of the fossil record shows extinction plays a key role in the evolutionary process. This paper presents a new evolutionary algorithm that emphasizes extinction to conduct search operations over a fitness landscape
Keywords :
evolution (biological); evolutionary computation; genetic algorithms; evolutionary algorithm; evolutionary programming; extinction; fitness landscape; fossil record; parents; reproduction; search operations; survival; tournament selection; Biological system modeling; Computer science; Earth; Evolution (biology); Evolutionary computation; Genetic programming; Stability; Stress;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 1999. CEC 99. Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5536-9
DOI :
10.1109/CEC.1999.781997
