Darrell Whitley

13.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
143 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Darrell Whitley is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Darrell Whitley has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 37 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 24 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Darrell Whitley's work include Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (68 papers), Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (44 papers) and Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms (21 papers). Darrell Whitley is often cited by papers focused on Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (68 papers), Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (44 papers) and Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms (21 papers). Darrell Whitley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Spain. Darrell Whitley's co-authors include N. Karunanithi, Yashwant K. Malaiya, Ken D. Bovee, William J. Grenney, Soraya Rana, Timothy Starkweather, Larry J. Eshelman, J. David Schaffer, Keith E. Mathias and Robert B. Heckendorn and has published in prestigious journals such as Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Information Sciences and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Darrell Whitley

135 papers receiving 7.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A genetic algorithm tutorial

1994 3.2k citations Darrell Whitley profile →
Neural Networks for River Flow Prediction

1994 546 citations Darrell Whitley et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	To Repair or Not to Repair? Investigating the Importance of AB-Cycles for the State-of-the-Art TSP Heuristic EAX 2025 ·Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference ·(unknown), Darrell Whitley, Pascal Kerschke	0
2	Reducing the cost of partition crossover on large MAXSAT problems 2022 ·Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference ·(unknown), Darrell Whitley	1
3	TSPmap, a tool making use of traveling salesperson problem solvers in the efficient and accurate construction of high-density genetic linkage maps 2017 ·BioData Mining ·J. Grey Monroe, Zachariah A. Allen, Paul Tanger, Jack L. Mullen, John T. Lovell, Brook T. Moyers, Darrell Whitley, John McKay	10
4	The Island Model Genetic Algorithm: On Separability, Population Size and Convergence 2015 ·Hrčak Portal of scientific journals of Croatia (University Computing Centre) ·Darrell Whitley, Soraya Rana, Robert B. Heckendorn	140
5	The component model for elementary landscapes and partial neighborhoods 2014 ·Theoretical Computer Science ·Darrell Whitley, Andrew M. Sutton, Gabriela Ochoa, Francisco Chicano	0
6	Efficient retrieval of landscape Hessian: Forced optimal covariance adaptive learning 2014 ·Physical Review E ·Ofer M. Shir, Jonathan Roslund, Darrell Whitley, Herschel Rabitz	14
7	Exploring privacy versus data quality trade-offs in anonymization techniques using multi-objective optimization 2011 ·Journal of Computer Security ·Rinku Dewri, Indrajit Ray, (unknown), Indrakshi Ray, Darrell Whitley	3
8	Subthreshold-seeking local search 2006 ·Theoretical Computer Science ·Darrell Whitley, Jonathan E. Rowe	5
9	Looking for shortcuts: infeasible search analysis for oversubscribed scheduling problems 2006 ·International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling ·Mark F. Rogers, Adele E. Howe, Darrell Whitley	4
10	Functions as Permutations: Implications for No Free Lunch, Walsh Analysis and Statistics 2000 ·Darrell Whitley, (unknown)	1
11	Genetic approach to feature selection for ensemble creation 1999 ·Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference ·(unknown), Darrell Whitley	38
12	Polynomial time summary statistics for a generalization of MAXSAT 1999 ·Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference ·Robert B. Heckendorn, Soraya Rana, Darrell Whitley	9
13	A free lunch proof for Gray versus Binary encodings 1999 ·Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference ·Darrell Whitley	34
14	A tractable Walsh analysis of SAT and its implications for genetic algorithms 1998 ·National Conference on Artificial Intelligence ·Soraya Rana, Robert B. Heckendorn, Darrell Whitley	28
15	Representation, search and genetic algorithms 1997 ·National Conference on Artificial Intelligence ·Darrell Whitley, Soraya Rana	8
16	Evaluating evolutionary algorithms 1996 ·Artificial Intelligence ·Darrell Whitley, Soraya Rana, (unknown), Keith E. Mathias	245
17	Scheduling problems and traveling salesman: the genetic edge recombination 1989 ·international conference on Genetic algorithms ·Darrell Whitley, Timothy Starkweather, (unknown)	105
18	Applying genetic algorithms to neural network learning 1989 ·Darrell Whitley	13
19	Scheduling problems and traveling salesman : The genetic edge recombination operator 1989 ·international conference on Genetic algorithms ·Darrell Whitley	164
20	Using reproductive evaluation to improve genetic search and heuristic discovery 1987 ·international conference on Genetic algorithms ·Darrell Whitley	22

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