"An ethical objection is raised against the Blackorby-Donaldson criterion of optimum population maximizing the sum total of utilities in excess of some critical level, since it may disprefer a social state with more people and with more worthwhile lives. However, the criterion may serve as a practicably reasonable compromise between maximizing total and average utility. Nevertheless, an alter...

| This paper is composed of two parts. The rst part surveys the literature regarding optimum nonlinear l-tering from the (continuous-time) stochastic analysis point of view, and the other part explores the impact of recent applications of neural networks (in a discrete-time context) to nonlinear ltering. In particular, the results obtained by using a regularized form of radial basis function (R...

An empirical study is performed on the local-optimum space of graph bipartitioning. We examine some statistical features of the fitness landscape. They include the cost-distance correlations and the properties around the central area of local optima. The study revealed some new notable results about the properties of the fitness landscape; e.g., the central area yielded fairly good quality in t...

Experimental Reproductiong Performance Comparison (stop in local optima) Algorithm Success rate Final fitness # Generations Panmictic (μ+1) EA 0.0 114 92,367 Independent subpopulations 0.038 550 377,472 Island model on ring 0.995 999 709,704 Island model on torus 1.