Parallelization of the evolution strategy for discrete structural optimization problems

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-30

  Thierauf, G ^a   Cai, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

DISCRETE STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL VIRTUAL MACHINE; POWER XPLORER PARALLEL SYSTEM;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031649603     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0885-9507.00082     Document Type: Article

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