Online version of GEP book: Chapter 6

The sixth chapter of the book GENE EXPRESSION PROGRAMMING: MATHEMATICAL MODELING BY AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is now available to browse online at:

http://www.gene-expression-programming.com/Books/

The book has 7 chapters and all but the last are now available (1 Introduction; 2 The Entities of Gene Expression Programming; 3 The Basic Gene Expression Algorithm; and 4 The Basic GEA in Problem Solving; 5 Design of Neural Networks; and 6 Combinatorial Optimization). The last chapter (7 Evolutionary Studies) will follow shortly. Entries for Chapter 6:

Chapter 6: COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION

1. Multigene families and scheduling problems
2. Combinatorial-specific operators: Performance and mechanisms
2.1. Inversion
2.2. Gene deletion/insertion
2.3. Restricted permutation
2.4. Other search operators
2.4.1. Sequence deletion/insertion
2.4.2. Generalized permutation
3. Two scheduling problems
3.1. The traveling salesperson problem
3.2. The task assignment problem
4. Evolutionary dynamics of simple GEP systems