Optimizing epochal evolutionary search: Population-size independent theory

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 186, Issue 2-4, 2000, Pages 171-194

  Van Nimwegen, Erik ^a,b   Crutchfield, James P ^a  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EPOCHAL DYNAMICS; EVOLUTION SEARCH; MUTATION RATE; POPULATION SIZE;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0033747992     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(99)00383-7     Document Type: Article

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