Investigation of a characteristic bimodal convergence-time/mutation-rate feature in evolutionary search

Proceedings of the 1999 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 1999

Volumn 3, Issue , 1999, Pages 2175-2182

  Oates, M ^a   Corne, D ^b   Loader, R ^b  

^a MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS;

CHARACTERISTIC PEAKS; COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE; EVOLUTIONARY SEARCH; GENERAL APPLICATIONS; LINEARLY PROPORTIONAL; PERFORMANCE PROFILE; PRE-MATURE CONVERGENCES;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 2242454708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.1999.785545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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