- title = "Pygmies and Civil Servants",
- author = "Conor Ryan",
- booktitle = "Advances in Genetic Programming",
- publisher = "MIT Press",
- editor = "Kenneth E. {Kinnear, Jr.}",
- year = "1994",
- pages = "243--263",
- chapter = "11",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
- broken = "ftp://odyssey.ucc.ie/pub/genetic/pygmy.tar.Z",
-
URL = "
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Advances-Genetic-Programming-Complex-Adaptive/dp/0262111888",
-
URL = "
http://cognet.mit.edu/sites/default/files/books/9780262277181/pdfs/9780262277181_chap11.pdf",
-
DOI = "
doi:10.7551/mitpress/1108.003.0016",
- size = "21 pages",
- abstract = "A new selection scheme, the Pygmy Algorithm, which uses disassortative mating, taken directly from population genetics, to reduce premature convergence in Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming is introduced. This reduced premature convergence is shown to allow stronger selection pressure and the use of small population at very little extra computational cost and with little risk of losing genetic material.",
-
notes = "Reduce premature convergence by crossing over between
two distinct subpopulations, best (civil servants),
short and good (Pygmies)
Part of \cite{kinnear:book}",
