On favoring positive correlations between form and quality of candidate solutions via the emergence of genomic self-similarity

  • Authors:
  • Ivan Garibay;Annie S. Wu;Ozlem Garibay

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL;University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL;University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

  • Venue:
  • GECCO '05 Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

A key property for the effectiveness of stochastic search techniques, including evolutionary algorithms, is the existence of a positive correlation between the form and the quality of candidate solutions. In this paper, we show that when the ordering of genomic symbols in a genetic algorithm is completely independent of the fitness function and therefore free to evolve along the candidate solutions it encodes, the resulting genomes self-organize into self-similar structures that favor this key stochastic search property.