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Some combinatorial landscapes on which a genetic algorithm outperforms other stochastic iterative methods / Dave Corne and Peter Ross -- Maximum entropy analysis of genetic algorithm operators / Jonathan L. Shapiro and Adam Prügel-Bennett -- The ant colony metaphor for searching continuous design spaces / G. Bilchev and I.C. Parmee -- Broadcast based fitness sharing GA for conflict resolution among autonomous robots / Sadoyoshi Mikami, Yukinori Kakazu and Terence C. Fogarty -- An adaptive poly-parental recombination strategy / Jim Smith and T.C. Fogarty -- Neighbourhood seeding to reduce problem modality / A.J. Swann -- Specialized recombinative operators for timetabling problems / Edmund Burke, Dave Elliman and Rupert Weare -- The use of local search suggestion lists for improving the solution of timetable problems with evolutionary algorithms / Ben Paechter, Andrew Cumming and Henri Luchian -- Comparing genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, and stochastic hillclimbing on timetable problems / Peter Ross and Dave Corne -- Evolutionary learning in computational ecologies : an application to adaptive, distributed routing in communication networks / Brian Carse, Terence C. Fogarty, and Alistair Munro -- The radio link frequency assignment problem : a case study using genetic algorithms / A. Kapsalis ... [et al.] -- Scheduling planned maintenance of the national grid / W.B. Langdon -- Genetic operators and constraint handling for pipe network optimization / Dragan A. Savic and Godfrey A. Walters -- A multi-objective approach to constrained optimisation of gas supply networks : COMOGA method / Patrick D. Surry, Nicholas J. Radcliffe and Ian D. Boyd -- Ternary decision diagram optimisation of Reed-Muller logic functions using a genetic algorithm for variable and simplification rule ordering / J.F. Miller, P. Thomson and P.V.G. Bradbeer -- An evolutionary algorithm for parametric array signal processing / Dekum Yang and Stuart Flockton -- Constraints on task and search complexity in GA + NN models of learning and adaptive behaviour / Mukesh J. Patel -- Load balancing application of the genetic algorithm in a nonstationary environment / Frank Vavak, Terence C. Fogarty and Phillip Cheng -- Exploring some commercial applications of genetic programming / Gerald Robinson and Paul McIlroy. |
