Title :
Neutrality: a necessity for self-adaptation
Author :
Toussaint, Marc ; Igel, Christian
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Univ., Bochum, Germany
fDate :
6/24/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Self-adaptation is used in all main paradigms of evolutionary computation to increase efficiency. We claim that the basis of self-adaptation is the use of neutrality. In the absence of external control, neutrality allows a variation of the search distribution without the risk of fitness loss
Keywords :
evolutionary computation; probability; search problems; self-adjusting systems; efficiency; evolutionary computation; external control; fitness loss; neutrality; search distribution variation; self-adaptation; Bioinformatics; Encoding; Evolution (biology); Evolutionary computation; Genomics; Probability distribution; Search problems;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 2002. CEC '02. Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7282-4
DOI :
10.1109/CEC.2002.1004440
