Theory of Evolutionary Algorithm: A View from Thermodynamics

Authors:
Yuanxiang Li;Weiwu Wang;Xianjun Shen;Weiqin Ying;Bojin Zheng
Affiliations:
State Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China;State Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China;Department of Computer Science, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, China;State Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China;College of Computer Science, South-Central University For Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, China
Venue:
ICCS '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Computational Science, Part IV: ICCS 2007
Year:
2007

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Abstract

It is recognized that evolutionary algorithms are inspired from evolutionary biology. In this paper, we set up a thermodynamic model of evolutionary algorithm. This model is intuitive and has a solid foundation in thermodynamics. It is our first step towards a unified theory of evolutionary algorithms.