A hybrid crossover operator for structural optimisation based on commonality in genetic search

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 390-408

  Conceicao Antonio, C A ^a   Lhate, I A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Structural optimization

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STIFFNESS MATRIX; VECTORS;

FITNESS FUNCTIONS; GENETIC SEARCH; HYBRID CROSSOVER OPERATOR; LOCAL SEARCH SCHEME;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0038068832     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644400310476315     Document Type: Article

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