Competent Probabilistic Model Building Genetic Algorithms

摘要

AFOSR Grant No. F49620-00-1-0163 has come to a close with substantial progress on all fronts. In particular, the Bayesian Optimization Algorithm has been extended to the important class of hierarchically difficult problems. Progress has also been made in a number of related competent GAs and efficiency enhancement techniques as well as in the application of these techniques.