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Multiple Populations Guided by the Constraint-Graph for CSP

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Advances in Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA 2000, SBIA 2000)

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In this paper we examine the gain of the performance obtained using multiple populations - that evolve in parallel - of the constraintgraph based evolutionary algorithm (in its dynamic adaptation operators version) with a migration policy. We show that a multiple populations approach outperforms a single population implementation when applying it to the 3-coloring problem. We also evaluate various migration policies.

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Nuñez, A., Riff, MC. (2000). Multiple Populations Guided by the Constraint-Graph for CSP. In: Monard, M.C., Sichman, J.S. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. IBERAMIA SBIA 2000 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1952. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44399-1_47

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