A comparison of the robustness of evolutionary computation and random walks

Proceedings of the 2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC2004

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 250-257

  Schonfeld, Justin ^a   Ashlock, Daniel A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTATION VARIANCE; MUTATIONAL SEPARATION; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 4344564437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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