Thoughts on solution concepts
@inproceedings{Bucci2007ThoughtsOS, title={Thoughts on solution concepts}, author={Anthony Bucci and Jordan B. Pollack}, booktitle={GECCO '07}, year={2007} }
This paper explores connections between Ficici's notion of solution concept and order theory. Ficici postulates that algorithms should ascend an order called weak preference; thus, understanding this order is important to questions of designing algorithms. We observe that the weak preference order is closely related to the pullback of the so-called lower ordering on subsets of an ordered set. The latter can, in turn, be represented as the pullback of the subset ordering of a certain powerset…
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