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This paper introduces CCS, a Co-evolutionary approach to Constraint Satisfaction. Two types of objects — constraints and solutions — interact in a way modelled after predator and prey relations in nature. It is shown that co-evolution considerably focuses the genetic search. In addition, the new technique of life-time fitness evaluation (LTFE) is introduced. Its partial but continuous nature allows for efficient fitness evaluation. Moreover, co-evolution and LTFE nicely complement each other. Hence, their combined use further improves the performance of the evolutionary search.
CCS also provides a new perspective on the problems associated with high degrees of epistasis and the use of penalty functions.
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Paredis, J. (1994). Co-evolutionary constraint satisfaction. In: Davidor, Y., Schwefel, HP., Männer, R. (eds) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature — PPSN III. PPSN 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 866. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58484-6_249
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