Combining mutation operators in evolutionary programming

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 91-96

  Chellapilla, Kumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cauchy mutation; Evolutionary programming; Gaussian mutation; Variation operators

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CAUCHY MUTATION; EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING; GAUSSIAN MUTATION;

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0032155006     PISSN: 1089778X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4235.735431     Document Type: Article

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