The relationship between learning and evolution in static and dynamic environments

• Author(s): Rocha, Miguel ; Cortez, Paulo, 1971- ; Neves, José
• Date: 2000
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/840
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Genetic and evolutionary algorithms; Artificial neural netwoks; Lamarckian optimization; Baldwin effect; Hybrid systems
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Evolution and lifetime learning have been adopted by living creatures to get the best of the adaptation processes to natural environments. Within the Machine Learning (ML) arena such methods have been treated, particularly in the fields of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Neural Networks. Why not to combine both techniques, giving rise to several ML models, namely those based on Lamarckian or Baldwinian approaches? The results so far obtained point to better performances with the former ones under static settings, but reward the latter under dynamic environments, where the learning tasks change over time.