Optimising cancer chemotherapy using an estimation of distribution algorithm and genetic algorithms

GECCO 2006 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 413-418

  Petrovski, Andrei ^a   Shakya, Siddhartha ^a   McCall, John ^a  

^a ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms; Evolutionary Computation; Probabilistic Modelling

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTHERAPY; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ONCOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; ESTIMATION OF DISTRIBUTION ALGORITHM (EDA); POPULATION BASED INCREMENTAL LEARNING (PBIL); PROBABILISTIC MODELLING;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33750272949     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1143997.1144073     Document Type: Conference Paper

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