Evolutionary computation is a kind of adaptive non--numerical computation method which is designed tosimulate evolution of nature. In this paper, evolutionary algorithm behavior is described in terms of theconstructio...Evolutionary computation is a kind of adaptive non--numerical computation method which is designed tosimulate evolution of nature. In this paper, evolutionary algorithm behavior is described in terms of theconstruction and evolution of the sampling distributions over the space of candidate solutions. Iterativeconstruction of the sampling distributions is based on the idea of the global random search of generationalmethods. Under this frame, propontional selection is characterized as a gobal search operator, and recombination is characerized as the search process that exploits similarities. It is shown-that by properly constraining the search breadth of recombination operators, weak convergence of evolutionary algorithms to aglobal optimum can be ensured.展开更多
文摘Evolutionary computation is a kind of adaptive non--numerical computation method which is designed tosimulate evolution of nature. In this paper, evolutionary algorithm behavior is described in terms of theconstruction and evolution of the sampling distributions over the space of candidate solutions. Iterativeconstruction of the sampling distributions is based on the idea of the global random search of generationalmethods. Under this frame, propontional selection is characterized as a gobal search operator, and recombination is characerized as the search process that exploits similarities. It is shown-that by properly constraining the search breadth of recombination operators, weak convergence of evolutionary algorithms to aglobal optimum can be ensured.