Optimum Population Size and Mutation Rate for a Simple Real Genetic Algorithm that Optimizes Array Factors

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Newsletter

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 94-102

  Haupt, Randy L ^a   Haupt, Sue Ellen ^a  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

MUTATION RATE; POPULATION SIZES;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0034226097     PISSN: 10569170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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