[PDF] Top 20 Computational complexity of elitist population-based evolutionary algorithms: a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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... First I would like to thank my three supervisors for their guidance and motivation. The support they provided in planning and conducting of the experiments was invaluable. Bill Pomroy, as my chief supervisor, had the ... See full document

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... A facility that will allow rapid experi mentation with parameter values is clearly helpful in the development of an algorithm that has inter-dependent parameter values and critical parameter settings. However, command ... See full document

... Some work in the literature touches on the issue of specifying a suitable value for the minimum support. For example, Silverstein et al. [109] proposed using the chi-squared significance test instead of specifying ad-hoc ... See full document

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