Democratic elitism

Transcendental Elitism

Elitism and egalitarianism

As a collective group, scientists would probably vote slightly left of the centre, be more liberal in their political and social views and would be genuinely concerned about inequalities in society. Scientists rarely use the word ‘elite’ without some apologetic justification, yet we constantly speak about selection through excellence—and hence exclusion of a nonelite—without any blushes. Althou...

Elitism and stochastic dominance

Élitisme et Dominance Stochastique Résumé La dominance stochastique est traditionnellement associée à la mesure du risque et de l'inégalité et repose sur la concavité de la fonction d'utilité. Nous prétendons que l'approche en terme de dominance stochastique a des implications qui vont au-delà de la mesure du risque et de l'inégalité pour peu que l'on procède à certains ajustements. Nous appliq...

Elitism-based compact genetic algorithms

This paper describes two elitism-based compact genetic algorithms (cGAs)—persistent elitist compact genetic algorithm (pe-cGA), and nonpersistent elitist compact genetic algorithm (ne-cGA). The aim is to design efficient compact-type GAs by treating them as estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs) for solving difficult optimization problems without compromising on memory and computation cos...

DGA and Pareto Elitism : Improving Pareto

Previous works have shown the eeciency of a new approach for the Genetic Algorithms, the Dual Genetic Algorithms, in the multiobjective optimization context. Dual Genetic Algorithms make use of a meta level to enhance the expressiveness of schemata, entities implicitly handle by Genetic Algorithms. In this paper, we show that this approach, coupled with a new method, Pareto Elitism, leads to ve...