This paper presents results from the first known application of the genetic algorithm (GA) technique for optimizing the performance of a laser system (chemical, solid-state, or gaseous). The effects of elitism, single point and uniform crossover, creep mutation, different random number seeds, population size, niching and the number of children per pair of parents on the performance of the GA fo...

We present a real-coded genetic algorithm that efficiently estimates parameters of a formant trajectory model. The genetic algorithm uses roulette-wheel selection and elitism to minimize the root mean square error between the observed formant trajectory and the model trajectory. Parameters, including vowel and consonant target values and coarticulation parameters, are estimated for a corpus of ...

Author Affiliation: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nigde University, Nigde, Turkey. Abstract: This letter outlines a hybrid genetic algorithm (HGA) for solving the economic dispatch problem. The algorithm incorporates the solution produced by an improved Hopfield neural network (NN) [1] as a part of its initial population. Elitism, arithmetic crossover, and mutation are us...

research related to colonialism and post colonialism shows how the identities of indigenous people were constructed and how these identities are reconstructed in our contemporary world. the thrust of this paper is that colonialism brought a shift in the linguistic structure of ghana with the introduction of the use of english among ghanaians. the coexistence of both ghanaian languages and engli...

Dynamic optimization problems are a kind of optimization problems that involve changes over time. They pose a serious challenge to traditional optimization methods as well as conventional genetic algorithms since the goal is no longer to search for the optimal solution(s) of a fixed problem but to track the moving optimum over time. Dynamic optimization problems have attracted a growing interes...

The media outlets usually identified as building blocks of New Right are niche ideological journals (such National Review ) and radio broadcasts. As crucial these were, other mainstream publications propagating similar ideas had a far greater reach—foremost among them the York Daily News , highest-circulation newspaper in country. From 1940s through 1960s, espoused conservative populism further...