Combining local search with co-evolution in a remarkably simple way

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation, ICEC

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages 1578-1584

  Boettcher, Stefan ^a   Percus, Allon G ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; ADJUSTABLE PARAMETERS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; EXTREMAL OPTIMIZATION; HIGH-QUALITY SOLUTIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY; STATISTICAL PHYSICS; SUBOPTIMAL SOLUTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATED ANNEALING; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0033671778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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