Evolutionary Algorithms

What is emergence?

A paper in Evolutionary Computation.

A Description of Holland's Royal Road Function. This tar file also includes a C code implementation of Holland's function. Here is the abstract.

Papers in ICGA proceedings.

The 5th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (1993)

Reverse Hillclimbing, Genetic Algorithms and the Busy Beaver Problem (with Gregory Rawlins). Here is the abstract.

The 6th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (1995)

Fitness Distance Correlation as a Measure of Problem Difficulty for Genetic Algorithms (with Stephanie Forrest).
Here is the abstract.
Questions may be asked about this and other papers through NetQ.
Crossover, Macromutation, and Population-based Search.
Here is the abstract.

Technical Reports (Caveat Emptor)

Here are some technical reports that didn't make it in the real world. I still think they're worth reading. Information about obtaining SFI technical reports can be found right here.

A technical report entitled A Model of Landscapes.
SFI TR 94-02-002
Here is the abstract. This was rejected by the FOGA workshop in 1994.

A technical report on Genetic Algorithms and Heuristic Search.
SFI TR 95-02-021
Here is the abstract. This was rejected by the ICJAI in 1995.

A technical report entitled One Operator, One Landscape.
SFI TR 95-02-025
Here is the abstract. This was a rewrite of the "Model of Landscapes" paper (above) that was nevertheless rejected by the ML conference in 1995.

Terry Jones (terry <AT> jon.es)