Adaptive evolvability via non-coding segment induced linkage
C.-Y. Lee, Erik K. Antonsson · 2001
In this paper, evolvability, or the ability of a population to produce fitter variants than any yet existing [1], of a genetic algorithm is adapted during runtime by evolving good linkage characteristics. This adaptive linkage is induced by a variable length non-coding segment representation. It is expected that adaptation of linkage will improve search efficiency due to emergence of well linked, or modular, genetic code. Results of non-coding representation are compared with those of a standard representation on a set of Royal Road functions.