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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2005
James Kenneth Aragones, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Naresh Sundaram Iyer, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Catherine Joyce Lazatin, Mt. Prospect, IL (US);
James Kenneth Aragones, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Naresh Sundaram Iyer, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Catherine Joyce Lazatin, Mt. Prospect, IL (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
The performance of optimization algorithms operating with compute-intensive fitness functions is enhanced by constraining time-intensive fitness evaluations for candidate solutions that show low likelihood of being fit at early stages of the fitness evaluation. By prematurely discarding alternatives that could be potentially optimal upon complete fitness evaluation but with low likelihood, the running time of the overall optimization process is advantageously reduced substantially, thereby trading off time complexity for search fidelity.