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Authors: Yaochu Jin
ISBN-13: 9783540229025, ISBN-10: 3540229027
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Date Published: October 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Yaochu Jin

Book Synopsis

This carefully edited book puts together the state-of-the-art and recent advances in knowledge incorporation in evolutionary computation within a unified framework. The book provides a comprehensive self-contained view of knowledge incorporation in evolutionary computation including a concise introduction to evolutionary algorithms as well as knowledge representation methods. "Knowledge Incorporation in Evolutionary Computation" is a valuable reference for researchers, students and professionals from engineering and computer science, in particular in the areas of artificial intelligence, soft computing, natural computing, and evolutionary computation.

Table of Contents

A selected introduction to evolutionary computation3
The use of collective memory in genetic programming15
A cultural algorithm for solving the job shop scheduling problem37
Case-initialized genetic algorithms for knowledge extraction and incorporation57
Using cultural algorithms to evolve strategies in a complex agent-based system81
Methods for using surrogate models to speed up genetic algorithm optimization : informed operators and genetic engineering103
Fuzzy knowledge incorporation in crossover and mutation123
Learning probabilistic models for enhanced evolutionary computation147
Probabilistic models for linkage learning in forest management177
Performance-based computation of chromosome lifetimes in genetic algorithms195
Genetic algorithm and case-based reasoning applied in production scheduling215
Knowledge-based evolutionary search for inductive concept learning237
An evolutionary algorithm with Tabu restriction and heuristic reasoning for multiobjective optimization255
Neural networks for fitness approximation in evolutionary optimization281
Surrogate-assisted evolutionary optimization frameworks for high-fidelity engineering design problems307
Model assisted evolution strategies333
Knowledge incorporation through lifetime learning359
Local search direction for multi-objective optimization using memetic EMO algorithms385
Fashion design using interactive genetic algorithm with knowledge-based encoding411
Interactive evolutionary design435
Integrating user preferences into evolutionary multi-objective optimization461
Human preferences and their applications in evolutionary multi-objective optimization479
An interactive fuzzy satisficing method for multiobjective integer programming problems through genetic algorithms503
Interactive preference incorporation in evolutionary engineering design525

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