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The 2-epistasis of fitness functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

M. T. Iglesias ,
V. S. Peñaranda ,
C. Vidal  and
A. Verschoren
M. T. Iglesias
Affiliation:
Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
V. S. Peñaranda
Affiliation:
Universidade da Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
C. Vidal
Affiliation:
University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
A. Verschoren
Affiliation:
University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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In this note about Genetic Algorithms (GA-), we study the 2-epistasis of a fitness function over a search space. This concept is a natural generalisation of that of epistasis, previously considered by Davidor in 1991 Suys and Verschoren in 1996 and Van Hove and Verschoren in 1994 for example. We completely characterise fitness functions whose 2-epistasis is minimal: these are exactly the second order functions. The validity of 2-epistasis as a measure of hardness with respect to genetic algorithms is checked over some classical laboratory functions. Finally, we obtain an upper bound of the maximal value of the 2-epistasis when we restrict attention to non-negative functions.

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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 76 , Issue 3 , December 2007 , pp. 397 - 419
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2007

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