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    The population model of an evolutionary algorithm (EA) describes the structural properties of its population to which its members are subject. A population...
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    Evolutionary algorithms (EA) reproduce essential elements of the biological evolution in a computer algorithm in order to solve "difficult" problems,...
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    genetic algorithm (GA) is a metaheuristic inspired by the process of natural selection that belongs to the larger class of evolutionary algorithms (EA)....
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    Evolutionary computation from computer science is a family of algorithms for global optimization inspired by biological evolution, and the subfield of...
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    Selection is a genetic operator in an evolutionary algorithm (EA). An EA is a metaheuristic inspired by biological evolution and aims to solve challenging...
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    Crossover in evolutionary algorithms and evolutionary computation, also called recombination, is a genetic operator used to combine the genetic information...
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    genetic diversity of the chromosomes of a population of an evolutionary algorithm (EA), including genetic algorithms in particular. It is analogous to biological...
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    A cellular evolutionary algorithm (cEA) is a kind of evolutionary algorithm (EA) in which individuals cannot mate arbitrarily, but every one interacts...
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    genotype in evolutionary algorithms (EA) is a set of parameters which define a proposed solution of the problem that the evolutionary algorithm is trying...
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    Evolutionary programming is an evolutionary algorithm, where a share of new population is created by mutation of previous population without crossover...
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    discovered every run, with no guarantee however. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) due to their population based approach, provide a natural advantage over...
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    Premature convergence (category Evolutionary algorithms)
    unwanted effect in evolutionary algorithms (EA), a metaheuristic that mimics the basic principles of biological evolution as a computer algorithm for solving...
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    The Fly Algorithm is a computational method within the field of evolutionary algorithms, designed for direct exploration of 3D spaces in applications...
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  • Neuroevolution of augmenting topologies (category Evolutionary algorithms and artificial neuronal networks)
    control tasks, the NEAT algorithm often arrives at effective networks more quickly than other contemporary neuro-evolutionary techniques and reinforcement...
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  • nature-inspired algorithms" (PDF). Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2014 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. pp...
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  • Hyperparameter optimization (category Model selection)
    evolutionary optimization uses evolutionary algorithms to search the space of hyperparameters for a given algorithm. Evolutionary hyperparameter optimization...
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  • In evolutionary computation, a human-based genetic algorithm (HBGA) is a genetic algorithm that allows humans to contribute solution suggestions to the...
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  • artificial intelligence that normalizes the data. Evolutionary programming is often paired with other algorithms e.g. artificial neural networks to improve the...
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    operations research, a memetic algorithm (MA) is an extension of an evolutionary algorithm (EA) that aims to accelerate the evolutionary search for the optimum...
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    important component of evolutionary algorithms (EA), such as genetic programming, evolution strategies or genetic algorithms. An EA is a metaheuristic...
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    Cultural algorithms (CA) are a branch of evolutionary computation where there is a knowledge component that is called the belief space in addition to the...
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  • Evolutionary game theory (EGT) is the application of game theory to evolving populations in biology. It defines a framework of contests, strategies, and...
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  • on models which have been developed; the other purpose is to make predictions for future outcomes based on these models. A hypothetical algorithm specific...
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    Gene expression programming (category Evolutionary algorithms)
    programming (GEP) in computer programming is an evolutionary algorithm that creates computer programs or models. These computer programs are complex tree structures...
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    distribution algorithm (EDA) An evolutionary algorithm that substitutes traditional reproduction operators by model-guided operators. Such models are learned...
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    solutions and ending with the model that generates only the global optima. EDAs belong to the class of evolutionary algorithms. The main difference between...
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  • genetic algorithms) and tree-like ones (as in genetic programming). Evolutionary art Human-based evolutionary computation Human-based genetic algorithm Human–computer...
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    Truncation selection (category Selection (evolutionary algorithm))
    breeding and in evolutionary algorithms from computer science, which selects a certain share of fittest individuals from a population for reproduction...
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  • which work on a population of possible solutions in the context of evolutionary algorithms or in the context of swarm intelligence algorithms, are subdivided...
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    Genetic operator (category Evolutionary algorithms)
    A genetic operator is an operator used in evolutionary algorithms (EA) to guide the algorithm towards a solution to a given problem. There are three main...
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