The building block fallacy Export

@misc{citeulike:1381191, abstract = {Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are increasingly used for such purposes as deriving programs [1] and producing designs for robots [2]. According to the building-block hypothesis and schema analysis of Holland [3] the GA is an efficient search method. However, empirical work has shown that in some cases the method is outperformed by simpler processes such as random-permutation hill climbing [4] and [5]. The present paper reexamines Holland's framework (as formulated by Goldberg [6]) and finds...}, author = {Thornton, C.}, citeulike-article-id = {1381191}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/thornton03building.html}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://citeseer.lcs.mit.edu/thornton03building.html}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://citeseer.ifi.unizh.ch/thornton03building.html}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://citeseer.comp.nus.edu.sg/thornton03building.html}, keywords = {ga-theory, genetic-algorithms, schema-theory}, posted-at = {2007-09-25 12:57:18}, priority = {2}, title = {The building block fallacy}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/thornton03building.html}, year = {1997} }

TY - GEN ID - citeulike:1381191 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1381191 N2 - Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are increasingly used for such purposes as deriving programs [1] and producing designs for robots [2]. According to the building-block hypothesis and schema analysis of Holland [3] the GA is an efficient search method. However, empirical work has shown that in some cases the method is outperformed by simpler processes such as random-permutation hill climbing [4] and [5]. The present paper reexamines Holland's framework (as formulated by Goldberg [6]) and finds... TI - The building block fallacy KW - ga-theory KW - genetic-algorithms KW - schema-theory AU - Thornton, C PY - 1997/// UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/thornton03building.html ER -