Kumara Sastry

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Optimal sampling and speed-up for genetic algorithms on the sampled OneMax problem

24 June 2003

Yu, T.-L., Goldberg, D. E., Sastry, K. (2003). Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 1554—1565. [Full paper - PDF] [Full paper - PS].
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Tournament selection in XCS

24 June 2003

Butz, M. V., Sastry, K., Goldberg, D. E. (2003). Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 1857—1869. (Best paper in LCS track). [Full paper - PDF] [Full paper - PS].
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Scalability of selectorecombinative genetic algorithms for problems with tight linkage

24 June 2003

Sastry, K., Goldberg, D. E. (2003). Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 1332—1334. (Nominated for best paper in GA track). [Full paper - PDF] [Full paper - PS] [Presentation slides].

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How well does a single-point crossover mix building blocks with tight linkage?

1 November 2002

Sastry, K., Goldberg, D. E. (2002). Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer and Information Science. [Full paper - PDF] [Full paper - PS] [Presentation slides].

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Analysis of mixing in genetic algorithms: A survey

1 August 2002

Sastry, K., Goldberg, D. E. (2002). IlliGAL report no. 2002012. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [Full paper - PDF] [Full paper - PS] [Presentation slides].

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Fitness inheritance in multi-objective optimization

24 June 2002

Chen, J.-H., Goldberg, D. E., Ho, S.-Y., Sastry, K. (2002). Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 319—326. [Full paper - PDF] [Full paper - PS].
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Genetic algorithms, efficiency enhancement, and deciding well with fitness functions with differing bias values

24 June 2002

Sastry, K., Goldberg, D. E. (2002). Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 536—543. [Full paper - PDF] [Full paper - PS] [Presentation slides].

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Genetic algorithms, efficiency enhancement, and deciding well with fitness functions with differing variances

24 June 2002

Sastry, K., Goldberg, D. E. (2002). Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 528—535. [Full paper - PDF] [Full paper - PS] [Presentation slides].

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Evaluation-relaxation schemes for genetic and evolutionary algorithms

12 January 2002

Sastry, K. (2002). . Master’s Thesis. Department of General Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. [Full text - PDF] [Full text - PS].
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Evolutionary algorithms + graphical models = scalable black-box optimization

1 December 2001

Pelikan, M., Sastry, K., Goldberg, D. E. (2001). IlliGAL report no. 2001029. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [Full paper - PDF] [Full paper - PS].
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