Improving computational mechanics optimum design using helper objectives: An application in frame bar structures

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

Volumn 4403 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 575-589

  Greiner, David ^a   Emperador, José M ^a   Winter, Gabriel ^a   Galván, Blas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evolutionary multiobjective optimization; Helper objectives; Multiobjectivization; Population diversity; Structural optimization

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EVOLUTIONARY MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; HELPER OBJECTIVES; POPULATION DIVERSITY;

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS;

EID: 37249076481     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70928-2_44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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