The Context The context of this question is that I want to play around with Gene Expression Programming (GEP), a form of evolutionary algorithm, using Erlang. GEP makes use of a string based DSL c...

I implemented a differential evolution algorithm for a side project I was doing. Because the crossover step seemed to involve a lot of parameter choices (e.g. crossover probabilities), I decided to...

My task: Create a program to copy a picture (given as input) using primitives only (like triangle or something). The program should use evolutionary algorithm to create output picture. My quest...

I need to develop a Course Timetabling software which can allot timeslots and rooms efficiently. This is a curriculum based routine, not post-enrollment based. And efficiently means classes are ass...

Lately I've observed a weird effect when I measured performance of my parallel application using the multiprocessing module and mpi4py as communication tools. The application performs evolutionary...

After getting some help, understanding the problem I had trying to compile the code, in this question (Trouble understanding GHC complaint about ambiguity) Will Ness suggested I redesign my type cl...

I once wrote a Tetris AI that played Tetris quite well. The algorithm I used (described in this paper) is a two-step process. In the first step, the programmer decides to track inputs that are "in...

I am currently reading a paper on using GA in constrained optimization problems. At some part, it is talking about applying niching scheme on the individuals (or the Pareto front they make). It se...

This is a question of general interest, as I am not trying to solve a specific problem. I have looked around to try to find some articles that cover this area, but am struggling to even put t...

Intuitively I'd think that if I want to find the "best" set of parameters, I can simply take the best performing 1 guy from a subset of lots of children, make that guy generate 100 children similar...

I am reading some papers about Genetic Algorithms and often they mention Evolutionary Algorithms in a very similar way. According to Wikipedia, GAs are subset of EAs. However, if we look closer, we...

I have a optimzation problem i'm trying to solve using a genetic algorithm. Basically, there is a list of 10 bound real valued variables (-1 <= x <= 1), and I need to maximize some function o...

Roger Alsing wrote an Evolutionary Algorithm for recreating the Mona Lisa using C#. His algorithm is simple: Generation a random population of size two. Replace the least-fit individual with a cl...

What's the relationship between the Monte-Carlo Method and Evolutionary Algorithms? On the face of it they seem to be unrelated simulation methods used to solve complex problems. Which kinds of pro...

I'm working on a project which will have a selected set of data and each data will have different attributes. I will need to use a fitness function to choose the data that best matches my selected ...

There is a Dutch artist/engineer who created a very elaborate walking mechanism. The working principle can be seen here: http://www.strandbeest.com/beests_leg.php The curious part is that he used...

First off, I would like to let you know that I have been programming for a few years (mostly C-based languages, iOS development, web stuff, etc) as a hobby and am now developing an interest for cre...

I have a problem which I am trying to solve with genetic algorithms. The problem is selecting some subset (say 4) of 100 integers (these integers are just ids that represent something else). Order ...

I'm new to the world of Haskell programming and I'm cutting my teeth on a simple genetic algorithm for finding good solutions to the Travelling Salesman problem. I am representing the solutions as ...

It's really all in the title, but here's a breakdown for anyone who is interested in Evolutionary Algorithms: In an EA, the basic premise is that you randomly generate a certain number of organism...

Simple machine learning question. Probably numerous ways to solve this: There is an infinite stream of 4 possible events: 'event_1', 'event_2', 'event_4', 'event_4' The events do not come in in ...

I would like to know what is a good, stable, framework that you guys suggest for implementing evolutionary optimisation techniques like PSO or GA? I have written my own ones and I like them, I wou...

It would not be my intention to put a link on my blog, but I don't have any other method to clarify what I really mean. The article is quite long, and it's in three parts (1,2,3), but if you are cu...

Genetic algorithms (GA) and genetic programming (GP) are interesting areas of research. I'd like to know about specific problems you have solved using GA/GP and what libraries/frameworks yo...

I would like to implement an interactive evolutionary algorithm for generating music (probably just simple melodies to start with). I'd like to use JFugue for this. Its website claims that i...