A survey of MEC: 1998-2001

Mind evolutionary computation (MEC) is a new approach of evolutionary computation (EC) proposed by Chengyi Sun in 1998. It has excellent performances on various aspects. Operations of similartaxis and dissimilation are employed in MEC rather than crossover and mutation operators in GAs, so the performance have improved a lot. The excellent performances are accomplished also due to three mechanisms of MEC, which are evolutionary directionality mechanism, memory mechanism and harmony mechanism between exploitation and exploration. This paper surveys the study and the main results during 1998-2001. The results demonstrate that a preliminary system has already been established for MEC. A detailed and complete description of MEC by pseudo codes is given first time. A modified result on convergence velocity of similartaxis process and some changes of glossaries are also given in the paper.