Optimization of cost functions using evolutionary algorithms with local learning and local search

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1641-1644

  Guimarães, Frederico G ^a   Campelo, Felipe ^b   Igarashi, Hajime ^b   Lowther, David A ^c   Ramírez, Jaime A ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolutionary algorithms; Hybrid methods; Memetic algorithms (MAs)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

HYBRID METHODS; LOCAL LEARNING; LOCAL SEARCH; MEMETIC ALGORITHMS (MA);

COST ACCOUNTING;

EID: 33947645394     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2007.892486     Document Type: Article

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