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Title: | Self-adaptation of mutation distribution in evolutionary algorithms |
Authors: | Tinos, R Yang, S |
Keywords: | Gaussian distribution;Evolutionary computation |
Issue Date: | 2007 |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Citation: | IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007), Singapore: 79 - 86, 25-28 Sep 2007 |
Abstract: | This paper proposes a self-adaptation method to control not only the mutation strength parameter, but also the mutation distribution for evolutionary algorithms. For this purpose, the isotropic g-Gaussian distribution is employed in the mutation operator. The g-Gaussian distribution allows to control the shape of the distribution by setting a real parameter g and can reproduce either finite second moment distributions or infinite second moment distributions. In the proposed method, the real parameter q of the g-Gaussian distribution is encoded in the chromosome of an individual and is allowed to evolve. An evolutionary programming algorithm with the proposed idea is presented. Experiments were carried out to study the performance of the proposed algorithm. |
Description: | This paper is posted here with permission from IEEE - Copyright @ 2007 IEEE |
URI: | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4424457&tag=1 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5844 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2007.4424457 |
ISBN: | 978-1-4244-1339-3 |
Appears in Collections: | Publications Computer Science Dept of Computer Science Research Papers |
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