On the State of Evolutionary Computation
Kenneth Alan De Jong, William M. Spears · 1993
In the past few years the evolutionary computation landscape has been rapidly changing as a result of increased levels of interaction between various research groups and the injection of new ideas which challenge old tenets. The effect has been simultaneously exciting, invigorating, annoying, and bewildering to the old-timers as well as the new-comers to the field. Emerging out of all of this activity are the beginnings of some structure, some common themes, and some agreement on important open issues. We attempt to summarize these emergent properties in this paper. 1 INTRODUCTION The field of evolutionary computation (EC) is in a stage of tremendous growth as witnessed by the increasing number of conferences, workshops, and papers in the area as well as the emergence of a central journal for the field. Until recently, the field could be characterized as a fairly amorphous collection of independent research groups each representing a particular approach to evolutionary computation wit...