Foundations of Genetic Algorithms 1996 (FOGA-4 ) Univ. San Diego August 3 - 5, 1996 (N.B. These titles have mutated slightly since the papers were presented; see published volume for exact references. - Rik 1 Apr 97) Fitness Landscape Characterization by Between Variance of Decompositions (#1) Aizawa, Akiko Natl. Ctr. Sci. Info Sys., Japan Exact Uniform Initialization For Genetic Programming (#7) Bohm, Walter, A. Geyer-Schulz Vienna Univ. of Economics & Bus. Admin. Probing GA performance of fitness landscapes (#2) Bornholdt, Stefan Univ. Keil, Germany A Study of Fixed-Length Subset Recombination (#4) Crawford , Kelly , R. L. Wainwright, C. J. Hoelting, D. A. Schoenfeld Amoco On searching $\alpha$-ary Hypercubes and Related Graphs (#6) Culberson , Joseph , J. Lichtner Univ. Alberta, Canada Analyzing GAs Using Markov Models with Semantically Ordered States (#25) De Jong , Kenneth A. , W. M. Spears George Mason Univ. Convergence Controlled Variation (#13) Eshelman, Larry , K. Mathias, J. D. Schaffer Phillips Resarch Labs Fitness functions for multipleobjective optimization problems (#36) Greenwood, Garrison , X. Hu, J. G. D'Ambrosio West. Michigan Univ. Learning Linkage (#9) Harik, Georges, D. Goldberg Univ. Ill. Urbana-Champaign A Stationary Point Convergence Theory for Evolutionary Algorithms (#10) Hart, William Sandia Natl. Lab. Nonlinearity, Walsh Coefficients, Hyperplane Ranking and the Simple Genetic Algorithm (#24) Heckendorn, R. B. , D. Whitley, S. Rana Colorado State Univ. GAs (with sharing) in search, optimization and machine learning (#28) Horn, Jeffrey Univ. Ill. Urbana-Champaign Stochastic Context-Free Grammar Induction with a Genetic Algorithm Using Local Search (#27) Kammeyer, Thomas , R. K. Belew Univ. Calif. San Diego SEARCH, Blackbox Optimization, and Sample Complexity (#31) Kargupta, Hillol, D. Goldberg Los Alamos Natl. Lab. Diagonalizing the Simple GA Mixing Matrix (#42) Koehler, Gary Univ. Florida Replicators, Majorization and GAs: New models and analytic tools (#14) Menon, Anil , K. Mehrota, C. K. Mohan, S. Ranka Syracuse Univ. Noisy fitness evaluation in GAs and the dynamics of learning (#17) Rattray, Magnus Univ. Manchester, U.K. Genetic Algorithm Dynamics in Two-well Potentials with Basins and Barriers (#19) Shapiro , Jon Univ. Manchester, U.K. A formalism for real-parameter evolutionary algorithms and directed recombination (#16) Surry , Patrick , N. Radcliffe Quadstone Ltd., U.K. Further Results on the Markov Chain Model of GAs and Their Application to SA-like Strategy (#20) Suzuki , Joe Stanford Univ. A Search for Counterexamples to Two Conjectures on the Simple Genetic Algorithm (#22) Wright, Alden H. , G. Bidwell Univ. Montana