William M. Spears: Selected Publications about Genetic Algorithms (Evolutionary Algorithms)
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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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Evolving finite-state machine strategies for protecting resources.
In the Proceedings of ISMIS'00.
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Spears, William M. (1999).
Aggregating Models of Evolutionary Algorithms.
Proceedings of the Conference on Evolutionary Computation..
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Spears, William M. (1999).
An Overview of Multidimensional Visualization Techniques.
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference.
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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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Spears, William M., and Kenneth A. De Jong (1996).
Analyzing GAs Using Markov Models 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. (1994).
Simple Subpopulation Schemes. In
Proceedings of the Evolutionary Programming Conference,
296-307.
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De Jong, Kenneth A., and William M. Spears (1993).
On the State of Evolutionary Computation. In
Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Genetic Algorithms,
618-623.
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Spears, William, M., K. A. De Jong, T. Baeck, D. Fogel, and H. de Garis
(1993). An Overview of Evolutionary Computation. In
Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning,
v667, 442-459.
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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 Diana F. Gordon (1991).
Adaptive Strategy Selection for Concept Learning. In
Proceedings of the First International
Workshop on Multistrategy Learning,
231-246.
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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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De Jong, Kenneth A. and William M. Spears (1991).
Learning Concept Classification Rules Using Genetic Algorithms. In
Proceedings of the Int'l Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
651-656.
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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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Spears, William M. and Kenneth A. De Jong (1990).
Using Genetic Algorithms for Supervised Concept Learning. In
Proceedings of the IEEE AI Tools Conference,
335-341.
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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 Kenneth A. De Jong (1990).
Using Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms as Heuristics
for NP-Complete Problems. In
Proceedings of the Int'l Joint Conference on Neural Networks,
118-121.
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De Jong, Kenneth A. and William M. Spears (1989).
Using Genetic Algorithms to Solve NP-Complete Problems. In
Proceedings of the Int'l Conference on Genetic Algorithms,
124-132.
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Book Chapters
- Spears, W. and Gordon, D. (2001)
Evolution of strategies for resource protection problems.
(to appear as a book chapter in Theory
and Applications of Evolutionary Computation: Recent Trends,
Springer-Verlag).
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Spears, William M. (1997). Recombination Parameters,
The Handbook of Evolutionary Computation,
T. Baeck, D. Fogel and Z. Michalewicz (editors),
IOP Publishing and Oxford University Press.
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Deb, K. and William M. Spears (1997). Speciation Methods,
The Handbook of Evolutionary Computation,
T. Baeck, D. Fogel and Z. Michalewicz (editors),
IOP Publishing and Oxford University Press. This paper isn't available
yet, although a portion entitled "Speciation Using Tag Bits" is
available here:
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Grefenstette, J. J., K. A. De Jong, and William M. Spears (1992).
Competition-Based Learning, chapter 6 in
Foundations of Knowledge Acquisition: Machine Learning,
203-225. Alan Meyrowitz and Susan Chipman (editors), Kluwer Academic
Publishers.
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Spears, William M. and Kenneth A. De Jong (1992).
Using Genetic Algorithms for Supervised Concept Learning, a chapter in
Artificial Intelligence Methods and Applications, Nikolaos G. Bourbakis
(editor), World Scientific.
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