Elitism, a technique which consists of copying, unchanged, one or more of the most fit individuals from one generation to the next, is widely used in generational evolutionary algorithms, including Genetic Programming (GP). Elitism ensures that the best individuals discovered in a generation (and hence in the whole run) are not lost, and, perhaps even more importantly, are made available to new...

Scholars who study populism from an ‘ideational approach’ consider as a set of ideas based on moralised anti-establishment thinking and strong people-centrist view politics. From this perspective, at theoretical level, populist attitudes have the following two main contrasts: pluralism elitism. In article, we investigate ideological consistency populism-pluralism-elitism among voters. Analysing...

Surprisingly, general search heuristics often solve combinatorial problems quite sufficiently, although they do not outperform specialized algorithms. Here, the behavior of simple randomized optimizers on the maximum clique problem on planar graphs is investigated rigorously. The focus is on the worst-, average-, and semi-average-case behaviors. In semi-random planar graph models an adversary i...

#1 Dean (R&D), Chairman & Professor (CSE/IT/MCA), H.C.T.M., Kaithal (Haryana), India #2 Professor, Deptt. of Computer Science & Applications, K.U., Kurukshetra (Haryana), India #3 Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Computer Science & Applications, K.U., Kurukshetra (Haryana), India __________________________________________________________________________________________________ AbstractThe use of ...

In this paper, a new genetic approach based on arithmetic crossover for solving the economic dispatch problem is proposed. Elitism, arithmetic crossover and mutation are used in the genetic algorithm to generate successive sets of possible operating policies. The proposed technique improves the quality of the solution. The new genetic approach is compared with an improved Hopfield NN approach (...

As a collective group, scientists would probably vote slightly left of the centre, be more liberal in their political and social views and would be genuinely concerned about inequalities in society. Scientists rarely use the word ‘elite’ without some apologetic justification, yet we constantly speak about selection through excellence—and hence exclusion of a nonelite—without any blushes. Althou...