The application of genetic algorithms to optimise the performance of a mine ventilation network: The influence of coding method and population size

Soft Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 493-506

  Lowndes, Ian S ^a   Fogarty, T ^b   Yang, Z Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Genetic algorithms; Parameter encoding; Population size; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

BINARY CODES; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MINE VENTILATION; MINING; OPTIMIZATION;

PARAMETER ENCODING; POPULATION SIZE;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 19644400012     PISSN: 14327643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-004-0364-9     Document Type: Article

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