Artificial intelligence (AI) emphasises the creation of intelligent machines/systems that
function like humans. AI has been applied to many real-world applications. Machine …

The greatest and fastest advances in the computing world today require researchers to
develop new problem-solving techniques capable of providing an optimal global solution …

In recent years, the research community has witnessed an explosion of literature dealing
with the mimicking of behavioral patterns and social phenomena observed in nature towards …

This article pursues the insight that language models naturally enable an intelligent variation
operator similar in spirit to evolutionary crossover. In particular, language models of …

A History of Metaheuristics arxiv:1704.00853v1 [cs.AI] 4 Apr 2017 Page 1 A History of
Metaheuristics ∗ Kenneth Sörensen Marc Sevaux Fred Glover Abstract This chapter …

This survey compiles ideas and recommendations from more than a dozen researchers with
different backgrounds and from different institutes around the world. Promoting best practice …

For genetic algorithms (GAs) using a bit-string representation of length n, the general
recommendation is to take 1/n as mutation rate. In this work, we discuss whether this is …

Proceedings of the 15th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation:
Bioinspired computation in combinat Page 1 1/88 Bioinspired Computation in Combinatorial …

The widely used multiobjective optimizer NSGA-II was recently proven to have considerable
difficulties in many-objective optimization. In contrast, experimental results in the literature …

Selecting the most appropriate algorithm to use when attempting to solve a black-box
continuous optimization problem is a challenging task. Such problems typically lack …