- author = "Franz Rothlauf",
- title = "Representations for Evolutionary Algorithms",
- booktitle = "GECCO '16 Companion: Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2016 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation",
- year = "2016",
- editor = "Tobias Friedrich and Frank Neumann and Andrew M. Sutton and Martin Middendorf and Xiaodong Li and Emma Hart and Mengjie Zhang and Youhei Akimoto and Peter A. N. Bosman and Terry Soule and Risto Miikkulainen and Daniele Loiacono and Julian Togelius and Manuel Lopez-Ibanez and Holger Hoos and Julia Handl and Faustino Gomez and Carlos M. Fonseca and Heike Trautmann and Alberto Moraglio and William F. Punch and Krzysztof Krawiec and Zdenek Vasicek and Thomas Jansen and Jim Smith and Simone Ludwig and JJ Merelo and Boris Naujoks and Enrique Alba and Gabriela Ochoa and Simon Poulding and Dirk Sudholt and Timo Koetzing",
- isbn13 = "978-1-4503-4323-7",
- pages = "413--434",
- address = "Denver, Colorado, USA",
- month = "20-24 " # jul,
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
- organisation = "SIGEVO",
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DOI = "
doi:10.1145/2908961.2926981",
- publisher = "ACM",
- note = "tutorial",
- publisher_address = "New York, NY, USA",
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abstract = "Successful and efficient use of evolutionary
algorithms (EA) depends on the choice of the genotype,
the problem representation (mapping from genotype to
phenotype) and on the choice of search operators that
are applied to the genotypes. These choices cannot be
made independently of each other. The question whether
a certain representation leads to better performing EAs
than an alternative representation can only be answered
when the operators applied are taken into
consideration. The reverse is also true: deciding
between alternative operators is only meaningful for a
given representation.
In EA practice one can distinguish two complementary approaches. The first approach uses indirect representations where a solution is encoded in a standard data structure, such as strings, vectors, or discrete permutations, and standard off-the-shelf search operators are applied to these genotypes. This is for example the case in standard genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, and some genetic programming approaches...",
- notes = "Distributed at GECCO-2016.",
