GAVaPS-a genetic algorithm with varying population size
Arabas, J.; Michalewicz, Z.; Mulawka, J.
Evolutionary Computation, 1994. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence., Proceedings of the First IEEE Conference on
Volume , Issue , 27-29 Jun 1994 Page(s):73 - 78 vol.1
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ICEC.1994.350039
Summary:The size of the population can be critical in many applications of
genetic algorithms. If the population size is too small, the genetic
algorithm may converge too quickly; if it is too large, the genetic
algorithm may waste computational resources; the waiting time for an
improvement might be too long. We propose an adaptive method for
maintaining variable population size, which grows and shrinks together
according to some characteristic of the search. The first experimental
results indicate some merits of the proposed method
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