Evolution to the xtreme: Evolving evolutionary strategies using a meta-level approach

Proceedings of the 2004 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC2004

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 31-38

  Deugo, Dwight ^a   Ferguson, Darrell ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

META-LEVEL APPROACH; MUTATION RATE; RANDOM ALGORITHMS;

CONTROL SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 4344671690     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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