Evaluating the CMA evolution strategy on multimodal test functions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3242, Issue , 2004, Pages 282-291

  Hansen, Nikolaus ^a   Kern, Stefan ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; TEST FACILITIES;

EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; GLOBAL OPTIMUM; GLOBAL SEARCH; MULTI-MODAL; PARAMETER-TUNING; POPULATION SIZES; STATE OF THE ART; TEST FUNCTIONS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 35048900140     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30217-9_29     Document Type: Article

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