Exploitation of Linkage Learning in Evolutionary Algorithms

by Ying-ping Chen

Book Overview

Linkage and Problem Structures.- Linkage Structure and Genetic Evolutionary Algorithms.- Fragment as a Small Evidence of the Building Blocks Existence.- Structure Learning and Optimisation in a Markov Network Based Estimation of Distribution Algorithm.- DEUM - A Fully Multivariate EDA Based on Markov Networks.- Model Building and Exploiting.- Pairwise Interactions Induced Probabilistic Model Building.- ClusterMI: Building Probabilistic Models Using Hierarchical Clustering and Mutual Information.- Estimation of Distribution Algorithm Based on Copula Theory.- Analyzing the k Most Probable Solutions in EDAs Based on Bayesian Networks.- Applications.- Protein Structure Prediction Based on HP Model Using an Improved Hybrid EDA.- Sensible Initialization of a Computational Evolution System Using Expert Knowledge for Epistasis Analysis in Human Genetics.- Estimating Optimal Stopping Rules in the Multiple Best Choice Problem with Minimal Summarized Rank via the Cross-Entropy Method.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642263275
• ISBN13: 9783642263279
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"