Search Results for author: James McDermott

Found 4 papers, 1 papers with code

When and Why Metaheuristics Researchers Can Ignore "No Free Lunch" Theorems

no code implementations7 Jun 2019 James McDermott

This paper argues that NFL results continue to be misunderstood by many researchers, and addresses this issue in several ways.

Improving Fitness Functions in Genetic Programming for Classification on Unbalanced Credit Card Datasets

no code implementations11 Apr 2017 Van Loi Cao, Nhien-An Le-Khac, Miguel Nicolau, Michael ONeill, James McDermott

We examine two fitness functions from previous studies and develop two new fitness functions to evolve GP classifier with superior accuracy on the minority class and overall.

Fraud Detection General Classification

PonyGE2: Grammatical Evolution in Python

6 code implementations24 Mar 2017 Michael Fenton, James McDermott, David Fagan, Stefan Forstenlechner, Michael O'Neill, Erik Hemberg

Grammatical Evolution (GE) is a population-based evolutionary algorithm, where a formal grammar is used in the genotype to phenotype mapping process.

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