Genetic Algorithms for Seismic Travel-Time Inversion
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This paper attacks the problem of seismic travel-time inversion using genetic algorithms. Seismic surveying is usually a precondition to engineering and construction work in an area and travel-time inversion is a method of deducing sub-surface features from the measured travel-times of seismic waves. We consider both the one-dimensional and two-dimensional versions of the problem and explore diierent encod-ings, selection strategies, and crossover operators for the genetic algorithm. Preliminary results indicate that a genetic algorithm is capable of nding geologically plausible structures to t the data.
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