Parallelizing evolutionary computation: A mobile agent-based approach

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 318-328

  Lee, Wei Po ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Distributed computing; Evolutionary computation; Java; Mobile agents; Mobility; Parallelism

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE ANTENNAS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; MOBILITY; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; PARALLELISM;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33750431007     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2005.11.034     Document Type: Article

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