@inproceedings{eurogp07:vanneschi, title = {A Comprehensive View of Fitness Landscapes with Neutrality and Fitness Clouds}, address = {Valencia, Spain}, author = {Leonardo Vanneschi and Marco Tomassini and Philippe Collard and S\'ebastien Verel and Yuri Pirola and Giancarlo Mauri}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Genetic Programming}, editor = {Marc Ebner and Michael O'Neill and Anik\'o Ek\'art and Leonardo Vanneschi and Anna Isabel Esparcia-Alc\'azar}, month = {11 - 13 April}, pages = {241--250}, publisher = {Springer}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {4445}, year = {2007}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2c40f6ed6b3646a2cfce60975c0175b42/brazovayeye}, abstract = {We define a set of measures that capture some different aspects of neutrality in evolutionary algorithms fitness landscapes from a qualitative point of view. If considered all together, these measures offer a rather complete picture of the characteristics of fitness landscapes bound to neutrality and may be used as broad indicators of problem hardness. We compare the results returned by these measures with the ones of negative slope coefficient, a quantitative measure of problem hardness that has been recently defined and with success rate statistics on a well known genetic programming benchmark: the multiplexer problem. In order to efficaciously study the search space, we use a sampling technique that has recently been introduced and we show its suitability on this problem.}, isbn = {3-540-71602-5}, isbn13 = {978-3-540-71602-0}, notes = {Part of \cite{ebner:2007:GP} EuroGP'2007 held in conjunction with EvoCOP2007, EvoBIO2007 and EvoWorkshops2007}, doi = {doi:10.1007/978-3-540-71605-1_22}, keywords = {algorithms, genetic programming } }