Searching for balance: Understanding self-adaptation on ridge functions

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

Volumn 4193 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 82-91

  Lunacek, Monte ^a   Whitley, Darrell ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

RIDGE FUNCTIONS; RIDGE PROBLEMS; SELF ADAPTATION; SPATIALLY CLOSE PARAMETERS;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

EID: 33750253050     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11844297_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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