How mutation and selection solve long-path problems in polynomial expected time

  • Authors:
  • Günter Rudolph

  • Affiliations:
  • Informatik Centrum Dortmund (ICD) Center for Applied Systems Analysis (CASA) Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Strasse 20 D-44227 Dortmund, Germany rudolph@icd.de

  • Venue:
  • Evolutionary Computation
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

It is shown by means of Markov chain analysis that unimodal binary long-path problems can be solved by mutation and elitist selection in a polynomially bounded number of trials on average.