The main focus of this paper is on the family of evolutionary algorithms and their real-life applications. We present the following algorithms: genetic algorithms, genetic programming, differential evolution, evolution strategies, and evolutionary programming. Each technique is presented in the pseudo-code form, which can be used for its easy implementation in any programming language. We present the main properties of each algorithm described in this paper. We also show many state-of-the-art practical applications and modifications of the early evolutionary methods. The open research issues are indicated for the family of evolutionary algorithms.
-In the paper an application of differential evolution algorithm to training of artificial neural networks is presented. The adaptive selection of control parameters has been introduced in the algorithm; due to this property only one parameter is set at the start of proposed algorithm. The artificial neural networks to classification of parity-p problem have been trained using proposed algorithm. Results obtained using proposed algorithm have been compared to the results obtained using other evolutionary method, and gradient training methods such as: error back-propagation, and Levenberg-Marquardt method. It has been shown in this paper that application of differential evolution algorithm to artificial neural networks training can be an alternative to other training methods.Keywords -artificial intelligence, artificial neural network, differential evolution algorithm, training method.
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