Talk:Population model (evolutionary algorithm)

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Resubmission comments

Comment 1 (Could this not form part of either (a) population model or (b) evolutionary algorithm?):
A: The existing article Population model deals with a completely different type of models used to study the population dynamics of living organisms. The new article is about different methods for structuring a population of solutions used by an evolutionary algorithm.
B: I think this would overload the EA article. The research over many years and the practical use of structured populations justifies a separate article.

Comment 2 (lack of references):
I have added several references and/or assigned them more precisely to the different passages in the new text. I would like to point out that structured populations are often treated in the literature in the context of parallelising EAs. As a result, the titles of publications often refer to parallelization, although they also address the underlying population models. If you are still missing references, it would be helpful to name the corresponding text passages. Many thanks in advance.

General remark: After completing the first revised version of this article, I came across an article entitled Cellular evolutionary algorithms by Enrique Alba that covers part of my text. However, Alba's article contains no inline references at all and consistently ignores the work of others, see also Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Cellular_evolutionary_algorithm. Reading his article, one gets the impression that cellular evolutionary algorithms are his own invention, which is definitely not the case. A classification in the overall concept of structured population models is completely missing. Therefore, I decided to combine both articles and use mine as a basis. I left out some parts of Alba's article because I think they go into too much detail about his research interests. Rather, a Wikipedia article should give the reader an overview of the topic and provide the basic and essential information, and the literature cited should facilitate access to further information.

If my article is accepted, I propose to delete Alba's article and redirect Cellular evolutionary algorithms to the new one. Additionally, I suggest adding a link to the new article in the box titled Part of a series on the Evolutionary algorithm.

Structured Populations are an effective countermeasure against premature convergence of evolutionary algorithms and I will link to the new article in subsequent articles after its publication:

Studi90 (talk) 15:39, 18 December 2022 (UTC) Studi90 (talk) 15:51, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]