Title
Make fast evolutionary programming robust by search step control
Abstract
It has been found that both evolutionary programming (EP) and fast EP (FEP) could get stuck in local optima on some test functions. Although a number of methods have been developed to solve this problem, nearly all have focused on how to adjust search step sizes. This paper shows that it is not enough to change the step sizes alone. Besides step control, the shape of search space should be changed so that the search could be driven to other unexplored regions without getting stuck in the local optima. A two-level FEP with deletion is proposed in this paper to make FEP robust on finding better solutions in function optimisation. A coarse-grained search in the upper level could lead FEP to generate a diverse population, while a fine-grained search in the lower level would help FEP quickly find a local optimum in a region. After FEP could not make any progress after falling in a local optimum, deletion would be applied to change the search space so that FEP could start a new fine-grained search from the points generated by the coarse-grained search.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11881070_107
ICNC (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
step size,coarse-grained search,local optimum,search step control,two-level fep,fast ep,fine-grained search,search step size,search space,step control,evolutionary programming,new fine-grained search
Population,Mathematical optimization,Evolutionary algorithm,Local optimum,Computer science,Algorithm,Local search (optimization),Robust control,Active systems,Evolutionary programming
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4221
0302-9743
3-540-45901-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yong Liu12526265.08
Xin Yao214858945.63