DPE Networks and Evolutionary Dynamics

Classic evolutionary algorithms (EAs) use a single population (panmixia) of individuals and apply operators on them as a whole. To prevent EAs from concentrating on a small search space area, structured EAs have been proposed to as a means for improving t

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l Phase Evolution

Dual Phase Evolution

David G. Green Jing Liu Hussein A. Abbass •

Dual Phase Evolution

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David G. Green Faculty of Information Technology Monash University Centre for Research on Intelligent Systems Clayton Australia

Hussein A. Abbass School of Engineering and Information Technology University of New South Wales Canberra, ACT Australia

Jing Liu Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of Ministry of Education Xidian University Xi’an People’s Republic of China

ISBN 978-1-4419-8422-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-8423-4

ISBN 978-1-4419-8423-4

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Preface

As computers have become all-pervasive in modern society, the growing preoccupation of modern society with information has led to a new paradigm for viewing the world around us. Natural computation is the idea of regarding objects and processes in the natural world as forms of computation. There is much evidence to support this view. The genetic code is akin to a tape containing processing instructions and ribosomes are almost literally devices wit