Fitness distributions in evolutionary computation: Analysis of local extrema in the continuous domain

Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 1999

Volumn 3, Issue , 1999, Pages 1885-1892

  Chellapilla, Kumar ^a   Fogel, David B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATURAL SELECTION INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

CONTINUOUS DOMAIN; DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS; EXPECTED IMPROVEMENTS; GAUSSIAN MUTATION; MUTATION OPERATORS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; VARIATION OPERATOR;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 11244319955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.1999.785503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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