Evolutionary Algorithms: Multimodal Problems and Spatial Distribution

Evolutionary Algorithms and Scheduling Problems

Evolutionary algorithms for timetable problems

The university course timetabling problem is hard and time-consuming to solve. Profits from full automatisation of this process can be invaluable. This paper describes architecture and operation of two automatic timetabling systems. Both are based on evolutionary algorithms, with specialised genetic operators and penalty-based evaluation function. The paper covers two problem variations (theore...

Tackling Multimodal Problems in Hybrid Genetic Algorithms

Evolutionary algorithms and dynamic optimization problems

2003 2 3 Summary This thesis examines evolutionary algorithms, a universal optimization method, applied to dynamic problems, i.e. the problems are changing during optimization. The thesis is motivated by a lack of foundations for the field and the incomparability of most publications that are of an empirical nature. To establish a basis for the comparison of evolutionary algorithms applied to d...

Evolutionary Algorithms and the Boltzmann Distribution