Applying evolutionary algorithms to problems with noisy, time-consuming fitness functions

Proceedings of the 2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC2004

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1254-1261

  Di Pietro, Anthony ^a   While, Lyndon ^a   Barone, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FITNESS FUNCTIONS; NOISE PERTURBATION; NOISE STRENGTH; RANDOM NOISE;

ALGORITHMS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GAME THEORY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 4344586460     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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