On the moments of the sampling distribution of particle swarm optimisers

Proceedings of GECCO 2007: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Companion Material

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2907-2914

  Poli, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Particle swarm optimisation; Theory

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; SAMPLING; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMISATION; SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 34548089148     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1274000.1274075     Document Type: Conference Paper

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