A GENETIC ALGORITHM WITH A MULTI-LAYERED GENOTYPE-PHENOTYPE MAPPING

Seamus Hill, Colm O'Riordan

2010

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the introduction of a multiple-layer genotype-phenotype mapping to a Genetic Algorithm (GA) which attempts to mimic more closely, the effects of nature. The motivation for introducing multiple-layers into the genotype-phenotype mapping is to create a many-to-one genotype-phenotype mapping. The paper compares a traditional GA with a GA containing a multi-layered genotype-phenotype mapping using a number of well understood problems in an attempt to illustrate the potential benefits of including the multilayered mapping. Initial findings suggest that the multi-layered mapping between the genotype-phenotype used in conjunction with a binary representation outperforms existing traditional GA approaches on well known problems, while still allowing the use well understood genetic operators.

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Hill S. and O'Riordan C. (2010). A GENETIC ALGORITHM WITH A MULTI-LAYERED GENOTYPE-PHENOTYPE MAPPING . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-31-7, pages 369-372. DOI: 10.5220/0003086203690372


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@conference{icec10,
author={Seamus Hill and Colm O'Riordan},
title={A GENETIC ALGORITHM WITH A MULTI-LAYERED GENOTYPE-PHENOTYPE MAPPING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={369-372},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003086203690372},
isbn={978-989-8425-31-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010)
TI - A GENETIC ALGORITHM WITH A MULTI-LAYERED GENOTYPE-PHENOTYPE MAPPING
SN - 978-989-8425-31-7
AU - Hill S.
AU - O'Riordan C.
PY - 2010
SP - 369
EP - 372
DO - 10.5220/0003086203690372