Dec/090
Focused Papers
The goal of most research papers is to focus on a particular objective or hypothesis (survey papers being the major, valid exception), but most papers have lots of extraneous details coming from the exact system and configuration under study.
After discussing the goal of boiling down a problem to its minimal required complexity with Phil Bones and Allan McInnes, I was reminded of the following paper comparing selection mechanism in GA. The point of the paper contains some survey-like discussion, but I admire the simplicity of the system they study. The system choice makes the selection behavior easy to illustrate without extra complexity.
A Game-Theoretic Investigation of Selection Methods Used in Evolutionary Algorithms -- Ficici, Melnik, and Pollack