A hybrid approach to parameter tuning in genetic algorithms

2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE CEC 2005. Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1096-1103

  Yuan, Bo ^a   Gallagher, Marcus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; METADATA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BENCHMARK PROBLEMS; DISTANCE METRIC; GENETIC OPERATORS; PARAMETER TUNING;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 27144551281     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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