The GENITOR Research Group  in Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation: Publications

An Overview of Evolutionary Algorithms, Darrell Whitley.
Journal of Information and Software Technology 43:817-831, 2001
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A Genetic Algorithm Tutorial, Darrell Whitley.
Statistics and Computing (4):65-85, 1994.
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Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks. Darrell Whitley.
Genetic Algorithms in Engineering and Computer Science.
Winter, Periaux, Galan and Cuesta, eds. pp: 203-216, John Wiley, 1995.
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Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computing. Darrell Whitley.
Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia 2002
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Examining the Role of Local Optima and Schema Processing in Genetic Search
Soraya Rana, 1999

Problem Difficulty for Tabu Search in Job-Shop Scheduling
Jean-Paul Watson, J. Christopher Beck, Adele E. Howe, and L. Darrell Whitley
Artificial Intelligence. 143(2) February 2003.
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Contrasting Structured and Random Permutation Flow-Shop Scheduling Problems:  Search Space Topology and Algorithm Performance
Jean-Paul Watson, Laura Barbulescu, L.  Darrell Whitley, and Adele E. Howe
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Satellite Range Scheduling: A Comparison of Genetic, Heuristic and Local Search
Laura Barbulescu, Adele E. Howe, Jean-Paul Watson, and L. Darrell Whitley
Seventh International Conference on Parallel Problem-Solving From Nature (PPSN-VII)
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Testing, Evaluation and Performance of Optimization and Learning Systems
D. Whitley, J.P. Watson, A. Howe and L. Barbulescu,
Keynote Address: Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacturing
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Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computing. Darrell Whitley.
Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia
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Augmented geophysical data interpretation through automated velocity picking in semblance velocity images.
R. Beveridge, C. Ross, D. Whitley and B. Fish.
Machine Vision and Applications Journal, 2002. 13:141-148.
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The No Free Lunch and Problem Description Length.
C. Schumacher, M. Vose and D. Whitley,
GECCO-2001 pp:565-570.
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Convergence Results for High Precision Gray Codes.
Darrell Whitley, Laura Barbulescu, and Jean-Paul Watson
FOGA-6, 2001 pp:295-311.
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Toward an Understanding of Local Search in Job-Shop Scheduling.
Jean-Paul Watson, J. Christopher Beck, Adele E. Howe, and L. Darrell Whitley
Appears in the Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Planning (ECP-01)
Winner of the PLANET Prize for Research Excellence
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An Overview of Evolutionary Algorithms..
D. Whitley,
Journal of Information and Software Technology 43:817-831
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Functions as Permutations: Implications for No Free Lunch, Walsh Analysis and Statistics.
Darrell Whitley,
PPSN-2000 pp:169-178.
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A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for the Quadratic Assignment Problem
Manuel Vazquez and L. Darrell Whitley
GECCO-2000 pp:169-178.
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A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for the Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling Problem
Manuel Vazquez and L. Darrell Whitley
GECCO-2000 pp:1011-1018.
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A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for the Static Job Shop Scheduling Problem,
Manuel Vazquez and L. Darrell Whitley
PPSN VI-2000 pp:303-312.
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Dynamic Representations and Escaping Local Optima: Improving Genetic Algorithms and Local Search.
Laura Barbulescu, Jean-Paul Watson and Darrell Whitley,
Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2000. pp: 879-884.
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A Free Lunch Proof for Gray versus Binary Encodings
Darrell Whitley
GECCO-1999 pp:726-733
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Polynomial Time Summary Statistics for a Generalization of MAXSAT
Robert Heckendorn, Soraya Rana, and Darrell Whitley
GECCO-1999 pp:281-288
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The Distributional Biases of Crossover Operators
Soraya Rana
GECCO-1999
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A Performance Assessment of Modern Niching Methods for Parameter Optimization Problems
Jean-Paul Watson
GECCO-1999
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Genetic Approach to Feature Selection for Ensemble Creation
Cesar Guerra-Salcedo and Darrell Whitley
GECCO-1999 pp:236-243
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Fast and Accurate Feature Selection Using Hybrid Genetic Strategies
C. Guerra-Salcedo, Stephen Chen, D. Whitley and S. Smith
CEC-1999
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The Impact of Approximate Evaluation on the Performance of Search Algorithms for Warehouse Scheduling
Jean-Paul Watson, Soraya Rana, L. Darrell Whitley, and Adele E. Howe
Journal of Scheduling, Volume 2, 79-98. 1999.
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Algorithm Performance and Problem Structure for Flow-shop Scheduling
Jean-Paul Watson, Laura Barbulescu, Adele E. Howe, and L. Darrell Whitley
16th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99). 1999.
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Feature Selection Mechanisms for Ensemble Creation: A Genetic Search Perspective
Cesar Guerra-Salcedo and Darrell Whitley
AAAI-99 and GECCO-99 Workshop on Data Mining with Evolutionary Algorithms: Research Directions
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Walsh Functions and Predicting Problem Complexity.
R.B. Heckendorn and D. Whitley. Evolutionary Computation.
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Genetic Algorithm Behavior in the MAXSAT Domain
S. Rana and D. Whitley.
PPSN-V.
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The Traveling Salesrep Problem, Edge Assembly Crossover, and 2-opt
J. P. Watson, C. Ross, V. Eisele, J. Denton, J. Bins, C. Guerra, D. Whitley, A. Howe
PPSN-V.
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A Tractable Walsh Analysis of SAT and its Implications for Genetic Algorithms
S. Rana, R. B. Heckendorn and D. Whitley.
AAAI-98.1998. Nominated for a Best Paper Award.
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Representation Issues in Neighborhood Search and Evolutionary Algorithms.
D. Whitley, S. Rana and R. B. Heckendorn.
Genetic Algorithms and Evolution Strategies in Engineering and Computer Science. D. Quagliarella, J. Periaux, C. Poloni and G. Winter, eds. pp: 39-57, Wiley, 1998.
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Genetic Search for Feature Subset Selection
C. Guerra-Salcedo and D. Whitley
SGA-98.
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Comparing Heuristic Search Methods and Genetic Algorithms for Warehouse Scheduling
L. D. Whitley, A. E. Howe, S. Rana, J. P. Watson, L. Barbulescu
Systems, Man and Cybernetics. 1998.
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Search, Binary Representations, and Counting Optima.
S. Rana and D. Whitley.
Proceeding of a workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms. Sponsored by the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
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Island Model Genetic Algorithms and Linearly Separable Problems
D. Whitley, S. Rana and R. B. Heckendorn (1997)
Proceedings of the AISB Workshop on Evolutionary Computation.
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Representation, Search, and Genetic Algorithms.
D. Whitley and S. Rana (1997)
14th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97). AAAI Press/MIT Press.
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A Walsh Analysis of NK-Landscapes.
R. B. Heckendorn and D. Whitley. (1997)
International Conference on Genetic Algorithms. T. Baeck, ed. Morgan Kaufmann.
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Messy Genetic Algorithms for Subset Feature Selection.
D. Whitley, R. Beveridge, C. Guerra and C. Graves. (1997)
International Conference on Genetic Algorithms. T. Baeck, ed. Morgan Kaufmann.
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Bit Representations with a Twist
S. Rana and D. Whitley. (1997)
International Conference on Genetic Algorithms. T. Baeck, ed. Morgan Kaufmann.
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Walsh Functions and Predicting Problem Complexity
R. B. Heckendorn. (1997)
International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms.
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Nonlinearity, Hyperplane Ranking and the Simple Genetic Algorithm
R. B. Heckendorn, D. Whitley and S. Rana (1997)
Foundations of Genetic Algorithms-4 Belew and Vose, eds. Morgan Kaufmann,
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Evaluating Evolutionary Algorithms.
D. Whitley, K. Mathias, S. Rana and J. Dzubera. (1996)
Artificial Intelligence Volume 85, pp. 245-2761, 1996.
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Searching in the presence of Noise
S. Rana, D. Whitley and R. Cogswell. (1996)
Parallel Problem Solving in Nature 4 (PPSN4)
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Comparing Heuristic, Evolutionary and Local Search Approaches to Scheduling.
D. Whitley, S. Rana, A. Howe, and K. Mathias. (1996)
Third Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems Conference (AIPS-96)
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A Comparison between Cellular Encoding and Direct Encoding for Genetic Neural Networks.
F. Gruau, D. Whitley and L. Pyeatt. (1996)
Genetic Programming: Proc. 1st Annual Conference 1996.
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An Empirical Evaluation of Genetic Algorithms on Noisy Objective Functions.
K. Mathias, D. Whitley, T. Kusuma, and C. Stork. (1996)
Genetic Algorithms for Pattern Recognition S.K. Pal, ed. pp: 65-86. CRC Press, 1996.
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A Review of Simple and Cellular Genetic Algorithms.
D. Whitley. (1995)
Applications of Modern Heuristic Methods. V. J. Rayward-Smith, ed. pp: 55-67, Alfred Waller, 1995.
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Modeling Simple Genetic Algorithms for Permutation Problems.
D. Whitley and N. Yoo. (1995)
Foundations of Genetic Algorithms-3 D. Whitley and M. Vose, eds. Morgan Kaufmann,
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Test Driving Three 1995 Genetic Algorithms: New Test Functions and Geometric Matching.
D. Whitley, R. Beveridge, C. Graves and K. Mathias. (1995)
Journal on Heuristics, 1:77-104. 1995
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Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks. Darrell Whitley (1995)
Genetic Algorithms in Engineering and Computer Science.
Winter, Periaux, Galan and Cuesta, eds. pp: 203-216, Wiley.
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Modeling Hybrid Genetic Algorithms. Darrell Whitley (1995)
Genetic Algorithms in Engineering and Computer Science.
Winter, Periaux, Galan and Cuesta, eds. pp: 191-201, Wiley.
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Building Better Test Functions
D. Whitley, K. Mathias, S. Rana and J. Dzubera. (1995)
International Conference on Genetic Algorithms. Eshelman, ed. Morgan Kaufmann, 1995.
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Hyperplane Ranking in Simple Genetic Algorithms.
D. Whitley, K. Mathias and L. Pyeatt. (1995)
International Conference on Genetic Algorithms. Eshelman, ed. Morgan Kaufmann, 1995.
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Cellular Encoding Applied to Neurocontrol.
D. Whitley, F. Gruau and L. Pyeatt. (1995)
International Conference on Genetic Algorithms. Eshelman, ed. Morgan Kaufmann, 1995.
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A Genetic Algorithm Tutorial.Statistics and Computing Volume 4, pp. 65-85, 1994.

Larmarckian Evolution, The Baldwin Effect and Function Optimization. D. Whitley, S. Gordon and K. Mathias. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature-PPSN III. Y. Davidor, H.P. Schwefel and R. Manner, eds. pp. 6-15. Springer-Verlag, 1994.

Advance Correlation Analysis of Operators for the Traveling Salesman Problems. D. Whitley and J. Dzubera. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature-PPSN III. Y. Davidor, H.P. Schwefel and R. Manner, eds. pp. 68-77. Springer-Verlag, 1994.

Transforming the Search Space with Gray Coding. K. Mathias and D. Whitley. IEEE Conf. on Evolutionary Computation. Volume 1. pp: 513-518, 1994.

Initial Performance Comparisons for the Delta Coding Algorithm. K. Mathias and D. Whitley. IEEE Conf. on Evolutionary Computation. Volume 1. pp: 433-438, 1994.

Staged Hybrid Genetic Search for Seismic Data Imaging. K. Mathias, D. Whitley, C. Stork and T. Kusuma (1994). IEEE Conf. on Evolutionary Computation. Volume 1. pp: 356-361, 1994.

Adding Learning to the Cellular Development of Neural Networks. F. Gruau and D. Whitley. Evolutionary Computation. Volume 1, No. 3 pp. 213-233, 1993.

Serial and Parallel Genetic Algorithms as Function Optimizers. S. Gordon and D. Whitley. International Conference on Genetic Algorithms. S. Forrest, ed. Morgan Kaufmann, 1993.

An Executable Model of a Simple Genetic Algorithm. D. Whitley. Foundations of Genetic Algorithms-2 D. Whitley, ed. Morgan Kaufmann, 1993.

Genetic Operators, the Fitness Landscape and the Traveling Salesman Problem. K. Mathias and D. Whitley. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature-PPSN 2. R. Ma:nner and B. Manderick, eds., pp. 219-228. North Holland-Elsevier, 1992.

A Comparative Study of Genetic Sequencing Operators. T. Starkweather, S. McDaniel, K. Mathias, C. Whitley, and D. Whitley. Proc. 4th International Conf. on Genetic Algorithms. R. Belew and L. Booker, eds., pp. 69-76. Morgan Kaufmann, 1991.

Delta Coding: An Interative Genetic Search Strategy. D. Whitley, K. Mathias, and P. Fitzhorn. Proc. 4th International Conf. on Genetic Algorithms. R. Belew and L. Booker, eds., pp. 77-84. Morgan Kaufmann, 1991.

Fundamental Principles of Deception. D. Whitley. Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA). G. Rawlins, ed., pp. 221-241. Morgan Kaufmann, 1991.

The Traveling Salesman and Sequence Scheduling: Quality Solutions Using Genetic Edge Recombination. D. Whitley, T. Starkweather, and D. Shaner. The Handbook of Genetic Algorithms}, L. Davis, ed., pp: 350-372. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991.

Motivation and Framework for Using Genetic Algorithms for Microcode Compaction. S. Beaty, D. Whitley and G. Johnson. 23rd Annual Workshop in Microprogramming and Microarchitecture (MICRO-23) Republished in: SIG Micro Newsletter, Volume 22, Number 1, January 1991.

The GENITOR Algorithm and Selective Pressure: Why Rank-Based Allocation of Reproductive Trials is Best. D. Whitley. Proc. 3th International Conf. on Genetic Algorithms. D. Schaffer, ed., pp. 116-121. Morgan Kaufmann, 1989.