Diverse committees vote for dependable profits

Proceedings of GECCO 2007: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2226-2233

  Yan, Wei ^a   Clack, Christopher D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Committee; Diversity; Dynamic environment; Finance; Genetic programming; Robustness

Indexed keywords

COST ACCOUNTING; FINANCE; MARKETING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

COMMITTEE; DIVERSITY; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT;

GENETIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 34548098392     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1276958.1277383     Document Type: Conference Paper

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