Paul Grouchy
ABSTRACT
A new speciation method for parallel evolutionary computation is presented, designed specifically to handle high-dimensional data. Taking inspiration from the natural sciences, the Phylogenetic Relations Island Speciation Model (PRISM) uses common ancestry and a novel species barcoding system to detect new species and move them to separate islands. Simulation experiments were performed on Multidimensional Knapsack Problems with different fitness landscapes requiring 100-dimensional genomes. PRISM's performance with various parameter settings and on the various landscapes is analyzed and preliminary results show that PRISM can consistently produce optimal or near-optimal solutions, outperforming the standard Genetic Algorithm and Island Model in all the performed experiments.
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- An island model for high-dimensional genomes using phylogenetic speciation and species barcoding
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