Mittagsseminar (in cooperation with J. Lengler, A. Steger, and D. Steurer)

Date and Time: Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 12:15 pm

Duration: 45 minutes

Location: OAT S15/S16/S17

Speaker: Nick Spooner

Edge-Based Representation Beats Vertex-Based Representation in Shortest-Path Problems

Evolutionary algorithms have shown themselves to be a powerful and effective tool for many optimisation problems where a specialised algorithm is not easily obtainable. Theoretical analysis of evolutionary algorithms remains quite primitive, and most efforts focus on toy examples and simple combinatorial problems. In this talk we discuss the application of a simple (1+1) evolutionary algorithm to the single-source shortest path problem, a well-studied problem in computer science, and examine the effect of the choice of representation and fitness function on the expected optimisation time.

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