A novel group search optimizer inspired by animal behavioural ecology

2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1272-1278

  He, S ^b   Wu, Q H ^a,b   Saunders, J R ^b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY; ANIMAL SCANNING MECHANISMS; GROUP SEARCH OPTIMIZER (GSO); PRODUCER SCROUNGER MODEL;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 34547336483     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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