Importance sampling regularization for estimation of distribution algorithms

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2001896

and also one in CEC 2007 is

Hierarchical importance sampling instead of annealing

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4424464

GECCO 2011 is going to be held in Ireland. I'm going to attend the conference and introduce my research results in a poster session. The research result is about "importance sampling regularization for estimation of distribution algorithms".

I have uploaded a short note about statistical evolutionary algorithms. In evolutionary algorithms, the Boltzmann distribution is important. However, its parameter, the inverse temperature, is difficult to control. My doctor thesis shows a method to overcome this difficulty. The note provides calculation details, that is, free energy and moment generation, which are well known in statistical physics.

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I'm starting to make my new web site by using Jimdo. Jimdo provides me good design and good UI.