Optimization with extremal dynamics

Complexity

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 57-62

  Boettcher, Stefan ^a   Percus, Allon G ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Criticality; Extremal optimization; Punctuated equilibrium; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

EID: 27144439179     PISSN: 10762787     EISSN: 10990526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.10072     Document Type: Article

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