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The Hierarchical Fair Competition (HFC) Model for Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms Jian Jun. Hu hujianju@cse.msu.edu Department of Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 Erik D. Goodman goodman@egr.msu.edu Genetic Algorithms Research and Applications Group Michigan State University 2857 W. Jolly Rd., Okemos, MI 48864 Abstract -The HFC model for evolutionary computation is inspired by the stratified competition often seen in society and biology. Subpopulations are stratified by fitness. Individuals move from low-fitness subpopula