Cultural algorithms: Less is more

E. Almirall; Ulises Cortés

doi:10.3233/978-1-60750-643-0-19

Cultural algorithms: Less is more

E. Almirall^*, Ulises Cortés

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Abstract

Cultural Algorithms, by imitating the social behavior of human communities are able to attain good results while exhibiting a remarkable frugality in resources. This paper explores their needs in terms of sample size and how these needs are affected by the complexity of the information being addressed, with a somewhat surprising result: less is more, smaller sample sizes conduce to better results at any level of complexity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Artificial Intelligence Research and Development
Publisher	IOS Press
Pages	19-28
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781607506423
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-60750-643-0-19
Publication status	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume	220
ISSN (Print)	0922-6389

Keywords

Agents
Complexity
Cultural Algorithms

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