Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction
  • Worthy N. Martin and William M. Spears
  • Overcoming Fitness Barriers in Multi-Modal Search Spaces5
  • Martin J. Oates and David Come
  • N iches in N K -Landscapes27
  • Keith E. Mathia, Larry J. Eshelman, and J. David Schaffer
  • New Methods for Tunable, Random Landscapes 47
  • R.E. Smith and J.E. Smith
  • Analysis of Recombinative Algorithms on a Non-Separable Building-Block Problem69
  • Richard A. Watson
  • Direct Statistical Estimation of GA Landscape Properties 91
  • Colin R. Reeves
  • Comparing Population Mean Curves109
  • B. Naudts and I. Landrieu
  • Local Performance of the ((/(I, () -ES in a Noisy Environment 127
  • Dirk V Arnold and Hans-Georg Beyer
  • Recursive Conditional Scheme Theorem, Convergence and
  • Population Sizing in Genetic Algorithms 143
  • Riccardo Poli
  • Towards a Theory of Strong Overgeneral Classifiers 165
  • Tim Kovacs
  • Evolutionary Optimization through PAC Learning 185
  • Forbes J. Burkowski
  • Continuous Dynamical System Models of Steady-State Genetic Algorithms209
  • Alden H. Wright and Jonathan E. Rowe
  • Mutation-Selection Algorithm: A Large Deviation Approach 227
  • Paul Albuquerque and Christian Mazza
  • The Equilibrium and Transient Behavior of Mutation and Recombination 241
  • William M. Spears
  • The Mixing Rate of Different Crossover Operators 261
  • Adam Prigel-Bennett
  • Dynamic Parameter Control in Simple Evolutionary Algorithms 275
  • Stefan Droste, Thomas Jansen, and Ingo Wegener
  • Local Search and High Precision Gray Codes: Convergence Results and Neighborhoods295
  • Darrell Whitley, Laura Barbulescu, and Jean-Paul Watson
  • Burden and Benefits of Redundancy 313
  • Karsten Weicker and Nicole Weicker
  • Author Index 335
  • Key Word Index337.