Memetic Algorithms

Ke-Lin Du () and M. N. S. Swamy ()
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Ke-Lin Du: Xonlink Inc
M. N. S. Swamy: Concordia University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Chapter Chapter 19 in Search and Optimization by Metaheuristics, 2016, pp 315-325 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The term meme was coined by Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene [7]. The sociological definition of a meme is the basic unit of cultural transmission or imitation. A meme is the social analog of genes for individuals. Universal Darwinism draws the analogy on the role of genes in genetic evolution to that of memes in a cultural evolutionary process [7]. The science of memetics [3] represents the mind-universe analog to genetics in cultural evolution, ranging the fields of anthropology, biology, cognition, psychology, sociology, and sociobiology. This chapter is dedicated to memetic and cultural algorithms.

Keywords: Local Search; Binary Sequence; Memetic Algorithm; Local Refinement; Belief Space (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41192-7_19

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