abstract:Interactive evolutionary computation (IEC) or aesthetic selection is a general term for methods of evolutionary computation that use human evaluation. Usually human evaluation is necessary when the form of fitness function is not known (for example, visual appeal or attractiveness; as in Dawkins, 1986) or the result of optimization should fit a particular user preference (for example, taste of coffee or color set of the user interface).
By introducing multi-agenttechnique into the domain of interactiveevolutionarycomputation, anewinteractive multi-agent evolutionaryalgorithm (IMAGA) was developed.