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- From: madavis@nmsu.edu (Mark Davis)
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:06:58 GMT
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- recent work by N. Radcliffe, "Genetic Set Recombination and Its
- Application to Neural Network Topology Optimization" in Neural
- Computing and Apllication, 1993 1:67-90, suggests that desirable
- properties of GAs include "proper assortment" and "respect for
- formae membership". both these definitions build upon Radcliffe's
- extension of Holland's schema analysis, called formae analysis,
- and require, respectively, that the offspring of two genomes in
- a GA have properties which in some way combine the desirable
- properties of the parents.
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- this is nothing new, perhaps. but what is interesting is his
- arrival at the Random, Respectful Recombination operation which
- involves selecting randomly and uniformly from the so-called
- similarity set of the two parents to produce the offspring. this
- operation bears a striking resemblance to the Gaussian modification
- scheme proposed by Fogel and Porto starting in the mid-60s and
- elucidated in Artificial Intelligence Through Simulated Evolution,
- an out-of-print and rare book, as well as in recent work (see
- Fogel, D. and Atmar, J.W. "Comparing Genetic Operators with
- Gaussian Mutations in Simulated Evolutionary Processes Using
- Linear Systems," Biol. Cybernetics, 63, 111-114, 1990.) In
- their work, the value of standard GA mutation operators has been
- repeatedly called into question, both in terms of its robust
- ability to find globally optimal solutions, and in its speed
- of convergence.
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- the fundamental criticism levied by the so-called evolutionary
- simulation-people against GAs as a methodology is precisely
- the question of the accuracy of the simulation. the assumption
- that representations which code individual properties in a
- linear genome and operations on those representations can
- approach the kind of robust optimization seen in nature is
- at question. specifically, they have suggested that complex
- behavior in natural systems is almost always the result of
- complex epistatic and pleiotrophic interactions of suites of
- genes, rarely of individual genes in isolation. GAs lack
- the ability to effectively simulate this property, and
- ultimately require random mutation to avoid suboptimal
- convergence and complex considerations of representation to
- provide comparable convergence rates.
-
- any comments???
-
- mark
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