Effect of parent selection and sibling rivalry on building-block assembly

• Published in: Natural computing Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 263 - 282
• Main Author: Poladian, Leon
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.03.2010; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Artificial Intelligence; Complex Systems; Computer Science; Evolutionary Biology; Genetic algorithms; Processor Architectures; Theory of Computation; Recombination operator; Parent selection; Crossover operator; Building-block hypothesis

Any crossover operator has both beneficial and detrimental effects: it can bring building blocks together or it can tear them apart. In this paper, we provide evidence that the recombination can be biased towards its more beneficial aspects by modifying both the parent selection process and the numb...