Past Achievements
- Bivariate Marginal Distribution Algorithm (BMDA)
(Pelikan, & Muehlenbein, 1998)
- Bayesian Optimization Algorithm (BOA)
(Pelikan, Goldberg, & Cantu-Paz, 1998)
- Hierarchical Bayesian Optimization Algorithm (hBOA)
(Pelikan, & Goldberg, 2001, 2002)
Current Research
- Efficiency Enhancement for BOA, hBOA, and other PMBGAs
- Parallelization.
- Hybridization.
- Time Continuation.
- Fitness evaluation relaxation.
- Prior knowledge utilization.
- Incremental and sporadic model building.
- Learning from problem-specific experience.
- Extensions of BOA and hBOA to other domains
- Variable length structure representations.
Computer programs, shapes, ...
- Continuous domains.
Vectors of continuous variables, ...
- Applications of BOA, hBOA, and other PMBGAs.
- Knowledge discovery and data mining.
- Statistical physics.
- Parameter optimization.
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