On building a principled framework for evaluating and testing evolutionary algorithms: A continuous landscape generator

2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2003 - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 451-458

  Yuan, Bo ^a   Gallagher, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

FITNESS FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 21844433429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2003.1299610     Document Type: Conference Paper

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