Abstract:
A new algorithm is presented for evolving binary decision diagrams (BDD) that employs the neutrality implicit in the BDD representation. It is shown that an effortless ne...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
A new algorithm is presented for evolving binary decision diagrams (BDD) that employs the neutrality implicit in the BDD representation. It is shown that an effortless neutral walk is taken; that is, a neutral walk that requires no fitness evaluations. Experiments show the algorithm to be robust and scalable across a range of n-parity problems up to n = 17, and highly efficient on a range of other functions with compact BDD representations. Evolvability and modularity issues are also discussed, and the search space is shown to be free of local optima.
Published in: 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
Date of Conference: 02-05 September 2005
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 12 December 2005
Print ISBN:0-7803-9363-5