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A comparative study of global and local selection in evolution strategies

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Traditionally, selection in Evolutionary Algorithms operates global on the entire population. In nature we rarely find global mating pools and thus we introduce a more-or-less geographical isolation in which individuals may interact only with individuals in the immediate locality, the local overlapping neighborhoods.

This paper studies two classes of diffusion models for Evolution Strategies (ES) where the decision for survival as well as the parent choice is performed locally only. The classes differ in that we either allow both parents to be chosen randomly from the neighborhood or one parent is chosen to be the centre individual and the other one is chosen randomly from the neighborhood. We introduce a notation for the diffusion model ES, give a theoretical analysis and present results of a numerical study.

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  1. Institute for Applied Computer Science, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Postfach 3640, D-76021, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Martina Gorges-Schleuter

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  1. Martina Gorges-Schleuter

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Agoston E. Eiben Thomas Bäck Marc Schoenauer Hans-Paul Schwefel

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Gorges-Schleuter, M. (1998). A comparative study of global and local selection in evolution strategies. In: Eiben, A.E., Bäck, T., Schoenauer, M., Schwefel, HP. (eds) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature — PPSN V. PPSN 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1498. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0056879

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