The Theory Of Evolution Strategies

Author : Hans-Georg Beyer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662043785
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Evolution Strategies written by Hans-Georg Beyer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary algorithms, such as evolution strategies, genetic algorithms, or evolutionary programming, have found broad acceptance in the last ten years. In contrast to its broad propagation, theoretical analysis in this subject has not progressed as much. This monograph provides the framework and the first steps toward the theoretical analysis of Evolution Strategies (ES). The main emphasis is deriving a qualitative understanding of why and how these ES algorithms work.

Author : Dirk V. Arnold
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461511054
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Noisy Optimization With Evolution Strategies written by Dirk V. Arnold and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noise is a common factor in most real-world optimization problems. Sources of noise can include physical measurement limitations, stochastic simulation models, incomplete sampling of large spaces, and human-computer interaction. Evolutionary algorithms are general, nature-inspired heuristics for numerical search and optimization that are frequently observed to be particularly robust with regard to the effects of noise. Noisy Optimization with Evolution Strategies contributes to the understanding of evolutionary optimization in the presence of noise by investigating the performance of evolution strategies, a type of evolutionary algorithm frequently employed for solving real-valued optimization problems. By considering simple noisy environments, results are obtained that describe how the performance of the strategies scales with both parameters of the problem and of the strategies considered. Such scaling laws allow for comparisons of different strategy variants, for tuning evolution strategies for maximum performance, and they offer insights and an understanding of the behavior of the strategies that go beyond what can be learned from mere experimentation. This first comprehensive work on noisy optimization with evolution strategies investigates the effects of systematic fitness overvaluation, the benefits of distributed populations, and the potential of genetic repair for optimization in the presence of noise. The relative robustness of evolution strategies is confirmed in a comparison with other direct search algorithms. Noisy Optimization with Evolution Strategies is an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners of evolutionary algorithms.

Author : Thomas Bäck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642401376
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Evolution Strategies written by Thomas Bäck and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys key algorithm developments between 1990 and 2012, with brief descriptions, a unified pseudocode for each algorithm and downloadable program code. Provides a taxonomy to clarify similarities and differences as well as historical relationships.

Author : John Maynard Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521288842
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution and the Theory of Games written by John Maynard Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-10-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1982 book is an account of an alternative way of thinking about evolution and the theory of games.

Author : John R. McDonnell
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262133173
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Programming IV written by John R. McDonnell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leila Kallel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540673965
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Aspects of Evolutionary Computing written by Leila Kallel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-05-08 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in the field to provide extensive, entry level tutorials to the theory of Evolutionary Computing, covering the main approaches to understanding the dynamics of Evolutionary Algorithms. It combines this with recent, previously unpublished research papers based on the material of the tutorials. The outcome is a book which is self-contained to a large degree, attractive both to graduate students and researchers from other fields who want to get acquainted with the theory of Evolutionary Computing, and to active researchers in the field who can use this book as a reference and a source of recent results.

Author : Beatrice Heuser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113949256X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Strategy written by Beatrice Heuser and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political instrument - from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from Vegetius to contemporary America, and with a particular focus on strategy since the Napoleonic Wars, Beatrice Heuser explores the evolution of strategic thought, the social institutions, norms and patterns of behaviour within which it operates, the policies that guide it and the cultures that influence it. Ranging across technology and warfare, total warfare and small wars as well as land, sea, air and nuclear warfare, she demonstrates that warfare and strategic thinking have fluctuated wildly in their aims, intensity, limitations and excesses over the past two millennia.

Author : Bor-Sen Chen
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128140739
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Systems Evolutionary Biology written by Bor-Sen Chen and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systems Evolutionary Biology: Biological Network Evolution Theory, Stochastic Evolutionary Game Strategies, and Applications to Systems Synthetic Biology discusses the evolutionary game theory and strategies of nonlinear stochastic biological networks under random genetic variations and environmental disturbances and their application to systematic synthetic biology design. The book provides more realistic stochastic biological system models to mimic the real biological systems in evolutionary process and then introduces network evolvability, stochastic evolutionary game theory and strategy based on nonlinear stochastic networks in evolution. Readers will find remarkable, revolutionary information on genetic evolutionary biology that be applied to economics, engineering and bioscience. Explains network fitness, network evolvability and network robustness of biological networks from the systematic perspective Discusses the evolutionary noncooperative and cooperative game strategies of biological networks Offers detailed diagrams to help readers understand biological networks, their systematic behaviors and the simulational results of evolutionary biological networks Includes examples in every chapter with computational simulation to illustrate the solution procedure of evolutionary theory, strategy and results

Author : Robert Axelrod
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786734884
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Cooperation written by Robert Axelrod and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A famed political scientist's classic argument for a more cooperative world We assume that, in a world ruled by natural selection, selfishness pays. So why cooperate? In The Evolution of Cooperation, political scientist Robert Axelrod seeks to answer this question. In 1980, he organized the famed Computer Prisoners Dilemma Tournament, which sought to find the optimal strategy for survival in a particular game. Over and over, the simplest strategy, a cooperative program called Tit for Tat, shut out the competition. In other words, cooperation, not unfettered competition, turns out to be our best chance for survival. A vital book for leaders and decision makers, The Evolution of Cooperation reveals how cooperative principles help us think better about everything from military strategy, to political elections, to family dynamics.

Author : Daniel Ashlock
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387319093
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Computation for Modeling and Optimization written by Daniel Ashlock and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrates on developing intuition about evolutionary computation and problem solving skills and tool sets. Lots of applications and test problems, including a biotechnology chapter.