Evolutionary optimization by distribution estimation with mixtures of factor Analyzers

Proceedings of the 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2002

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1396-1401

  Cho, Dong Yeon ^a   Zhang, Byoung Tak ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; MIXTURES; OPTIMIZATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; DISTRIBUTION ESTIMATION; ESTIMATION OF DISTRIBUTION ALGORITHMS; EVOLUTIONARY MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATIONS; PRE-MATURE CONVERGENCES; STOCHASTIC SELECTION;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33846312199     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2002.1004447     Document Type: Conference Paper

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