NEPRDec 4, 2017

Drift Analysis

arXiv:1712.00964v230 citations
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This is an incremental educational resource for researchers in evolutionary computation.

The chapter introduces drift analysis as a major tool for analyzing evolutionary algorithms and nature-inspired search heuristics, providing examples of its application.

Drift analysis is one of the major tools for analysing evolutionary algorithms and nature-inspired search heuristics. In this chapter we give an introduction to drift analysis and give some examples of how to use it for the analysis of evolutionary algorithms.

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