When do heavy-tail distributions help?

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4193 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 62-71

  Hansen, Nikolaus ^a   Gemperle, Fabian ^a   Auger, Anne ^a   Koumoutsakos, Petros ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; MODAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATE SPACE METHODS;

ANISOTROPIC CAUCHY DISTRIBUTION; HEAVY TAIL DISTRIBUTIONS; ISOTROPIC CAUCHY DISTRIBUTION; MULTIMODAL RASTRIGIN FUNCTION;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

EID: 33750232272     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11844297_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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