Title :
Modelling niches of arbitrary shape in genetic algorithms using Niche Linkage in the Dynamic Niche Clustering framework
Author :
Gan, Justin ; Warwick, Kevin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Cybern., Reading Univ., UK
Abstract :
We present some additions to a fuzzy variable radius niche technique called Dynamic Niche Clustering (DNC) (Gan and Warwick, 1999; 2000; 2001) that enable the identification and creation of niches of arbitrary shape through a mechanism called Niche Linkage. We show that by using this mechanism it is possible to attain better feature extraction from the underlying population
Keywords :
genetic algorithms; Dynamic Niche Clustering framework; Niche Linkage; arbitrary shape niches; feature extraction; fuzzy variable radius niche technique; genetic algorithms; Clustering algorithms; Convergence; Couplings; Cybernetics; Feature extraction; Gallium nitride; Genetic algorithms; Multi-stage noise shaping; Performance analysis; Shape;
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.2002.1006207
