My Publications

Here is a list of publications for which I was an author or coauthor. Checked (

) items form a representative sampling of my work. Eventually all published articles will have the following links:

Abstract - an html of the abstract of the paper
Postscript - the postscript of the paper
Bibtex - the ref preformated for easy inclusion of a ref to this paper in bibtex format.
Latex - the ref preformated for easy inclusion of a ref to this paper in straight Latex format.

Professional Credentials

My curriculum vita [Postscript]

Journal Publications

R. B. Heckendorn and Darrell Whitley . Predicting Epistasis from Mathematical Models. Evolutionary Computation, MIT Press, 1999, v7, n1, pp69-101 [Abstract] [Postscript] [Bibtex Ref] [Latex Ref]

Darrell Whitley, Soraya Rana, and Robert B. Heckendorn. Exploiting Separability in Search: The Island Model Genetic Algorithm. Journal of Computing and Information Technology, v. 7, n. 1, p33-47 (1999) (Special Issue on Evolutionary Computing) [Abstract] [Postscript] [Bibtex Ref] [Latex Ref]

Compilations

D. Whitley, S. Rana and R. Heckendorn; Representation Issues in Neighborhood Search and Evolutionary Algorithms In Genetic Algorithms and Evolution Strategies in Engineering and Computer Science. D. Quagliarella, J. Periaux, C. Poloni and G. Winter, eds. pp: 39-57, John Wiley, 1998 [Abstract] [Postscript] [Bibtex Ref] [Latex Ref]

Conference Publications

R. B. Heckendorn, Soraya Rana, Darrell Whitley; Polynomial Time Summary Statistics for a Generalization of MAXSAT In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference , Banzhof et al. ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 1999 [Abstract] [Postscript] [Bibtex Ref] [Latex Ref]

R. B. Heckendorn, Soraya Rana, Darrell Whitley; Test Function Generators as Embedded Landscapes In Foundations of Genetic Algorithms 5 , Collin Reeves and Wolfgang Banzhof ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 1999 [Abstract] [Postscript] [Bibtex Ref] [Latex Ref]

Soraya Rana, R. B. Heckendorn, Darrell Whitley; A Tractable Walsh Analysis of SAT and its Implications for Genetic Algorithms, In AAAI 98 (Accepted: Mar 18, 1998, Nominated for the AAAI98 Outstanding Paper Award, Soraya Presented) [Abstract] [Postscript] [Bibtex Ref] [Latex Ref]

Darrell Whitley, Soraya Rana, R. B. Heckendorn; Island Model GAs and Linearly Seperable Problems In AISB Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Manchester, England, 1997 (Accepted: Feb 24, 1997, Darrell Presented Apr 1997) [Abstract] [Postscript] [Bibtex Ref] [Latex Ref]

R. B. Heckendorn and D. Whitley. A Walsh Analysis of NK-Landscapes. Submitted to International Conference on Genetic Algorithms '97 (Submitted: Feb 5, 1997, Accepted Mar 27, 1997, I presented Jul 21, 1997)
[Abstract] [Postscript] [Bibtex Ref] [Latex Ref]

R. B. Heckendorn; Walsh Functions and Predicting Problem Complexity. In International Conference on Artificial Nerual Networks and Genetic Algorithms '97, Norwich, East Anglia, England (accepted and revised: Feb 4, 1997; I presented: Apr 2, 1997) [Abstract] [Postscript] [Bibtex Ref] [Latex Ref]

R. B. Heckendorn, D. Whitley, S. Rana; Nonlinearity, Hyperplane Ranking and the Simple Genetic Algorithm. In Foundations of Genetic Algorithms 4, Richard K. Belew and Michael Vose Eds., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1997 (presented: Aug 4, 1996; published Apr, 1997) [Postscript]

R. B. Heckendorn and Charles Anderson; A Multigrid Form of Value Iteration Applied to a Markov Decision Problem. Technical Report CS-98-113. [Postscript]