Improving Strawberries by Selection

Damage to Strawberries Caused by Simulated Transport

The quality and condition of perishable products delivered to the market and their subsequent selling prices are directly affected by the care taken during harvesting and handling. Mechanical injury, in fact, occurs at all stages, from pre-harvest operations through post-harvest handling, packing and transport to the market. The main implications of this damage are the reduction of the product’...

Cooperative Selection: Improving Tournament Selection via Altruism

This paper analyzes the dynamics of a new selection scheme based on altruistic cooperation between individuals. The scheme, which we refer to as cooperative selection, extends from tournament selection and imposes a stringent restriction on the mating chances of an individual during its lifespan: winning a tournament entails a depreciation of its fitness value. We show that altruism minimizes t...

Improving Lazy Attribute Selection

Attribute selection is a data preprocessing step which aims at identifying relevant attributes for a target data mining task – specifically in this article, the classification task. Previously, we have proposed a new attribute selection strategy – based on a lazy learning approach – which postpones the identification of relevant attributes until an instance is submitted for classification. Expe...

Novel Clonal Selection Algorithm Improving Selection Operator

To optimize the search of the clonal selection algorithm for the optimal solution, the selection operator is improved and a novel clonal selection algorithm is designed. The selection operator is compared with such selection operators as Roulette Wheel Selection operator, Tournament Selection operator, and Sampling Selection operator. The selection operator is improved to increase the accuracy ...

Improving Reading IELTS Scores: Completion vs. Selection Tasks