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A study of mutational robustness as the product of evolutionary computation

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This paper investigates the ability of a tournament selection based genetic algorithm to find mutationally robust solutions to a simple combinatorial optimization problem. Two distinct algorithms (a stochastic hill climber and a tournament selection based GA) were used to search for optimal walks in several variants of the self avoiding walk problem. The robustness of the solutions obtained by the algorithms were compared, both with each other and with solutions obtained by a random sampling of the optimal solution space. The solutions found by the GA were, for most of the problem variants, significantly more robust than those found by either the hill climbing algorithm or random sampling. The solutions found by the hill climbing algorithm were often significantly less robust than those obtained through random sampling. .

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GECCO '07: Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
July 2007
2313 pages
ISBN:9781595936974
DOI:10.1145/1276958
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  1. genetic algorithms
  2. robustness
  3. self avoiding walk
  4. tournament selection

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  • (2007)The effect of selection on the development of mutational robustness2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation10.1109/CEC.2007.4425090(4714-4721)Online publication date: Sep-2007

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