Use of a self-adaptive penalty approach for engineering optimization problems

Computers in Industry

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 113-127

  Coello Coello, Carlos A ^a,b,c  

^a LABORATORIO NACIONAL DE INFORMÁTICA AVANZADA   (Mexico)

^b University of Plymouth ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CO EVOLUTION; CONSTRAINT HANDLING; PENALTY FUNCTIONS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0034159170     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-3615(99)00046-9     Document Type: Article

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