An Analysis of Island Models in Evolutionary Computation

Zbigniew Skolicki

A need for solving more and more complex problems drives the 
Evolutionary Computation community towards advanced models of 
Evolutionary Algorithms. One such model is the island model 
which, although the subject of a variety of studies, still needs 
additional fundamental research. In my Ph.D. thesis I am aiming 
at studying the behavior of island models with regard to the 
amount of cooperation between islands, the level of heterogeneity 
and the difficulty of the problem being solved. This paper presents 
the main ideas and gathers preliminary results.