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Evolutionary algorithms in theory and practice

Thomas Bäck
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In this work, the author compares the three most prominent representatives of evolutionary algorithms: genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, and evolutionary programming within a unified framework, thereby clarifying the similarities and differences of these methods.
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The article was published on 1996-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2679 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Evolutionary music & Evolutionary programming.

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Single- and multiobjective evolutionary optimization assisted by Gaussian random field metamodels

TL;DR: The extensive use of the uncertainty information of predictions for screening the candidate solutions makes it possible to significantly reduce the computational cost of singleand multiobjective EA.
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A framework for evolutionary optimization with approximate fitness functions

TL;DR: A framework for managing approximate models in generation-based evolution control is proposed, well suited for parallel evolutionary optimization, which is able to guarantee the correct convergence of the evolutionary algorithm, as well as to reduce the computation cost as much as possible.
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Iterated Local Search: Framework and Applications

TL;DR: The purpose here is to give an accessible description of the underlying principles of iterated local search and a discussion of the main aspects that need to be taken into account for a successful application of it.
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A simple multimembered evolution strategy to solve constrained optimization problems

TL;DR: The proposed approach to solve global nonlinear optimization problems uses a simple diversity mechanism based on allowing infeasible solutions to remain in the population to find the global optimum despite reaching reasonably fast the feasible region of the search space.
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Fast Evolution Strategies

TL;DR: It is shown empirically that the new evolution strategy based on Cauchy mutation outperforms the classical evolution strategy on most of the 23 benchmark problems tested in this paper.