Populations are multisets - PLATO
Joaquim Nunes Aparício, Luís Miguel Parreira Correia, Fernando Moura-Pires · 1999
There are presently many and seemingly different optimization algorithms, based on unrelated paradigms. Herein we propose a framework to encompass those heuristics, providing a common working structure and a basis for their comparison. A formal definition, based on the multiset formalism is presented. We also show how to express some common operators in our framework and we present some (partial) results on relations among them.