An analysis of mutative ω-self-adaptation on linear fitness functions

Evolutionary Computation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 255-275

  Hansen, Nikolaus ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evolution strategy; Evolutionary algorithms; Linear fitness function; Self adaptation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ALGORITHMS; EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33750247267     PISSN: 10636560     EISSN: 15309304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/evco.2006.14.3.255     Document Type: Article

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