Conference paper
Fixed Parameter Evolutionary Algorithms and Maximum Leaf Spanning Trees: A Matter of Mutation
Evolutionary algorithms have been shown to be very successful for a wide range of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. We investigate the NP-hard problem of computing a spanning tree that has a maximal number of leaves by evolutionary algorithms in the context of fixed parameter tractability (FPT) where the maximum number of leaves is the parameter under consideration.
Our results show that simple evolutionary algorithms working with an edge-set encoding are confronted with local optima whose size of the inferior neighborhood grows with the value of an optimal solution. Investigating two common mutation operators, we show that an operator related to spanning tree problems leads to an FPT running time in contrast to a general mutation operator that does not have this property.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
Year: | 2010 |
Pages: | 204-213 |
Proceedings: | International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature |
Series: | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
Journal subtitle: | 11th International Conference, Kraków, Poland, September 11-15, 2010, Proceedings, Part I |
ISBN: | 3642158439 , 3642158447 , 9783642158438 and 9783642158445 |
Types: | Conference paper |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-642-15844-5_21 |