Evolutionary Computation, Volume 6

Volume 6 Number 1, Spring 1998

Evolutionary Algorithms for Scheduling

Kalyanmoy Deb, Partha Chakroborty: Time Scheduling of Transit Systems With Transfer Considerations Using Genetic Algorithms. 1-24
Carlos Cotta, José M. Troya: Genetic Forma Recombination in Permutation Flowshop Problems. 25-44
Colin R. Reeves, Takeshi Yamada: Genetic Algorithms, Path Relinking, and the Flowshop Sequencing Problem. 45-60
Emma Hart, Jeremy Nelson, Peter Ross: Solving a Real-World Problem Using an Evolving Heuristically Driven Schedule Builder. 61-80
Edmund K. Burke, Rupert F. Weare, James P. Newall: Initialization Strategies and Diversity in Evolutionary Timetabling. 81-103

Joseph C. Culberson: On the Futility of Blind Search: An Algorithmic View of ``No Free Lunch''. 109-127
Sanza T. Kazadi: Conjugate Schema and Basis Representation of Crossover and Mutation Operators. 129-160
Andrew Tuson, Peter Ross: Adapting Operator Settings in Genetic Algorithms. 161-184
Stefan Droste, Thomas Jansen, Ingo Wegener: A Rigorous Complexity Analysis of the (1 + 1) Evolutionary Algorithm for Separable Functions with Boolean Inputs. 185-196

Carlo C. Maley: DNA Computation: Theory, Practice, and Prospects. 201-229
Riccardo Poli, William B. Langdon: Schema Theory for Genetic Programming with One-Point Crossover and Point Mutation. 231-252
Michael D. Vose, Alden H. Wright: The Simple Genetic Algorithm and the Walsh Transform: Part I, Theory. 253-273
Michael D. Vose, Alden H. Wright: The Simple Genetic Algorithm and the Walsh Transform: Part II, The Inverse. 275-289

Variable-Length Representation and Noncoding Segments for Evolutionary Algorithms

Terence Soule, James A. Foster: Effects of Code Growth and Parsimony Pressure on Populations in Genetic Programming. 293-309
Thomas Haynes: Collective Adaptation: The Exchange of Coding Segments. 311-338
Peter W. H. Smith, Kim Harries: Code Growth, Explicitly Defined Introns, and Alternative Selection Schemes. 339-360
Helmut A. Mayer: ptGAs - Genetic Algorithms Evolving Noncoding Segments by Means of Promoter/Terminator Sequences. 361-386
Donald S. Burke, Kenneth A. De Jong, John J. Grefenstette, Connie Loggia Ramsey, Annie S. Wu: Putting More Genetics into Genetic Algorithms. 387-410