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, William J. Grenney, Ken D. Bovee, Soraya Rana, Timothy Starkweather, J. David Schaffer, Larry J. Eshelman, 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

Hit Papers

A genetic algorithm tutorial 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 1994 1000 2.0k 3.0k

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Darrell Whitley 3.2k 1.2k 925 886 813 143 7.6k
José A. Lozano 4.4k 1.4× 1.2k 1.0× 1.1k 1.2× 687 0.8× 1.1k 1.3× 292 10.4k
Frank Hutter 5.0k 1.6× 1.3k 1.1× 909 1.0× 1.0k 1.1× 577 0.7× 109 10.1k
Reuven Y. Rubinstein 2.3k 0.7× 1.2k 1.0× 815 0.9× 1.4k 1.5× 280 0.3× 69 10.8k
Dirk P. Kroese 1.9k 0.6× 874 0.7× 799 0.9× 1.3k 1.4× 247 0.3× 125 9.7k
Wolfgang Banzhaf 4.6k 1.5× 1.1k 0.9× 778 0.8× 358 0.4× 513 0.6× 231 7.7k
D. E. Goldberg 3.8k 1.2× 1.6k 1.3× 917 1.0× 1.6k 1.8× 510 0.6× 6 10.2k
A. E. Eiben 5.1k 1.6× 2.4k 2.0× 1.1k 1.2× 840 0.9× 431 0.5× 167 9.2k
James Bergstra 4.2k 1.3× 589 0.5× 505 0.5× 1.2k 1.3× 560 0.7× 25 10.1k
William G. Macready 6.2k 2.0× 3.0k 2.5× 777 0.8× 1.3k 1.4× 437 0.5× 35 10.6k
Lawrence Davis 3.8k 1.2× 1.4k 1.1× 835 0.9× 926 1.0× 379 0.5× 26 8.8k

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All Works

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Whitley, Darrell, et al.. (2025). To Repair or Not to Repair? Investigating the Importance of AB-Cycles for the State-of-the-Art TSP Heuristic EAX. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 231–239.
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Monroe, J. Grey, Zachariah A. Allen, Paul Tanger, et al.. (2017). TSPmap, a tool making use of traveling salesperson problem solvers in the efficient and accurate construction of high-density genetic linkage maps. BioData Mining. 10(1). 38–38. 10 indexed citations
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Whitley, Darrell, Soraya Rana, & Robert B. Heckendorn. (2015). The Island Model Genetic Algorithm: On Separability, Population Size and Convergence. Hrčak Portal of scientific journals of Croatia (University Computing Centre). 7(1). 33–47. 140 indexed citations
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Whitley, Darrell, Andrew M. Sutton, Gabriela Ochoa, & Francisco Chicano. (2014). The component model for elementary landscapes and partial neighborhoods. Theoretical Computer Science. 545. 59–75.
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Chicano, Francisco, Darrell Whitley, & Enrique Alba. (2014). Exact computation of the expectation surfaces for uniform crossover along with bit-flip mutation. Theoretical Computer Science. 545. 76–93. 6 indexed citations
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Dewri, Rinku, et al.. (2011). Exploring privacy versus data quality trade-offs in anonymization techniques using multi-objective optimization. Journal of Computer Security. 19(5). 935–974. 3 indexed citations
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Rogers, Mark F., Adele E. Howe, & Darrell Whitley. (2006). Looking for shortcuts: infeasible search analysis for oversubscribed scheduling problems. International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. 33 Suppl 3. 314–323. 4 indexed citations
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Whitley, Darrell & Jonathan E. Rowe. (2006). Subthreshold-seeking local search. Theoretical Computer Science. 361(1). 2–17. 5 indexed citations
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Whitley, Darrell, et al.. (2000). Functions as Permutations: Implications for No Free Lunch, Walsh Analysis and Statistics. 1 indexed citations
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Whitley, Darrell, et al.. (1999). Genetic approach to feature selection for ensemble creation. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 236–243. 38 indexed citations
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Whitley, Darrell. (1999). A free lunch proof for Gray versus Binary encodings. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 20(12). 726–733. 34 indexed citations
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Heckendorn, Robert B., Soraya Rana, & Darrell Whitley. (1999). Polynomial time summary statistics for a generalization of MAXSAT. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 191(50). 281–288. 9 indexed citations
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Rana, Soraya, Robert B. Heckendorn, & Darrell Whitley. (1998). A tractable Walsh analysis of SAT and its implications for genetic algorithms. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 392–397. 28 indexed citations
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Whitley, Darrell & Soraya Rana. (1997). Representation, search and genetic algorithms. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 497–502. 8 indexed citations
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Whitley, Darrell, et al.. (1996). Evaluating evolutionary algorithms. Artificial Intelligence. 85(1-2). 245–276. 245 indexed citations
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Whitley, Darrell & Timothy Starkweather. (1990). GENITOR II: a distributed genetic algorithm. Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. 2(3). 189–214. 173 indexed citations
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Whitley, Darrell, et al.. (1989). Scheduling problems and traveling salesman: the genetic edge recombination. international conference on Genetic algorithms. 133–140. 105 indexed citations
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Whitley, Darrell. (1989). Scheduling problems and traveling salesman : The genetic edge recombination operator. international conference on Genetic algorithms. 133–140. 164 indexed citations
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Whitley, Darrell. (1989). Applying genetic algorithms to neural network learning. 137–144. 13 indexed citations
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Whitley, Darrell. (1987). Using reproductive evaluation to improve genetic search and heuristic discovery. international conference on Genetic algorithms. 108–115. 22 indexed citations

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