Reinforcement learning for online control of evolutionary algorithms

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

Volumn 4335 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 151-160

  Eiben, A E ^a   Horvath, Mark ^a   Kowalczyk, Wojtek ^a   Schut, Martijn C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

FITNESS LANDSCAPES; ONLINE CONTROL; RUGGEDNESS;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 36348980390     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69868-5_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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