Partnering Strategies for Fitness Evaluation in a Pyramidal Evolutionary AlgorithmTools Aickelin, Uwe and Bull, Larry (2002) Partnering Strategies for Fitness Evaluation in a Pyramidal Evolutionary Algorithm. In: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2002, New York, USA. This is the latest version of this item. AbstractThis paper combines the idea of a hierarchical distributed genetic algorithm with different inter-agent partnering strategies. Cascading clusters of sub-populations are built from bottom up, with higher-level sub-populations optimising larger parts of the problem. Hence higher-level sub-populations search a larger search space with a lower resolution whilst lower-level sub-populations search a smaller search space with a higher resolution. The effects of different partner selection schemes for (sub-)fitness evaluation purposes are examined for two multiple-choice optimisation problems. It is shown that random partnering strategies perform best by providing better sampling and more diversity.
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