William M. Spears: Selected Publications about Recombination and Mutation
New Book on Evolutionary Algorithms
My book entitled "Evolutionary Algorithms: The
Role of Mutation and Recombination" is now available!
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Spears, W. (2000).
The Equilibrium and Transient Behavior of Mutation and Recombination.
Proceedings of Foundations of Genetic Algorithms..
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Spears, William M. and Kenneth A. De Jong (1998).
Dining with GAs: Operator Lunch Theorem.
Proceedings of Foundations of Genetic Algorithms..
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Kennedy, James, and William M. Spears (1998).
Matching Algorithms to Problems: An Experimental Test of the Particle
Swarm and Some Genetic Algorithms on the Multimodal Problem Generator.
Proceedings of the IEEE Int'l Conference on Evolutionary Computation.
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De Jong, Kenneth A., Mitchell A. Potter, and William M. Spears (1997).
Using Problem Generators to Explore the Effects of Epistasis.
Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Genetic Algorithms.
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- The Generators Used in the Paper
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Spears, William M. and Kenneth A. De Jong (1996).
Analyzing GAs using Markov Chains with Semantically Ordered and
Lumped States. Proceedings of Foundations of Genetic Algorithms..
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Spears, William M. (1995).
Adapting Crossover in Evolutionary Algorithms.
Proceedings of the Evolutionary Programming Conference, 367-384.
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De Jong, Kenneth A., William M. Spears, and Diana F. Gordon (1994).
Using Markov Chains to Analyze GAFOs.
Proceedings of Foundations of Genetic Algorithms., 115-137.
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Spears, William M. (1992).
Crossover or Mutation? In
Proceedings of Foundations of Genetic Algorithms Workshop,
221-237.
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Spears, William M. and Kenneth A. De Jong (1991).
On the Virtues of Parameterized Uniform Crossover. In
Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Genetic Algorithms,
230-236.
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Kenneth A. De Jong and William M. Spears (1990).
An Analysis of the Interacting Roles of Population Size and Crossover. In
Proceedings of the Int'l Workshop Parallel Problem Solving from Nature,
38-47.
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Spears, William M. and Kenneth A. De Jong (1990).
An Analysis of Multi-Point Crossover. In
Proceedings of the Foundations of Genetic Algorithms Workshop,
301-315.
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Spears, William M. and Vic Anand (1991).
A Study of Crossover Operators in Genetic Programming. In
Proceedings of the Sixth Int'l Symposium on Methodologies for
Intelligent Systems, 409-418.
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