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Evolutionary algorithms, such as evolution strategies, genetic algorithms, or evolutionary programming, have found broad acceptance in the last ten years. In contrast to its broad propagation, theoretical analysis in this subject has not progressed as much. This monograph provides the framework and the first steps toward the theoretical analysis of Evolution Strategies (ES). The main emphasis is deriving a qualitative understanding of why and how these ES algorithms work.
Series: Natural Computing Series
Hardcover: 381 pages
Publisher: Springer; 2001 edition (April 27, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3540672974
ISBN-13: 978-3540672975
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.9 x 9.2 inches
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This is the first book that I am aware of that addresses the foundations of evolutionary and genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, and evolutionary programming from a rigorous mathematical point of view. The book is designed for an audience of mathematicians and computer scientists who are curious about evolutionary strategies and need a formal treatment of its foundations. Readers currently involved in designing and writing genetic programs will find this book helpful in the optimizing of their algorithms, even though at times they might find the presentation a little heavy-handed. Evolutionary strategies are thought of as dynamical systems in the book, but these are not in general deterministic, but probabilistic in nature. The state space of the dynamical system consists of the direct product of an object parameter space, an endogenous strategy parameter set, and a collection of fitness functions. Evolution takes place in this state space via the "genetic operators", i.e. the selection, mutation, reproduction, and recombination operators. The goal of course is to find an optimum solution to the problem, and so a consideration of the convergence of the evolution strategy to this optimum must be addressed. These issues and others, such as the differentiation between evolutionary strategies and ordinary Monte Carlo methods, are discussed in great detail in the book. The author emphasizes that the mechanism of evolutionary strategies lies in the local properties of state space, the evolutionary process being obtained by small steps in this space. He also suggests three prerequisites for the working of evolutionary algorithms, namely the evolutionary progress principle, the genetic repair hypothesis, and mutation-induced operation by recombination.
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