Heuristic function optimization inspired by social competitive behaviors

Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2105-2111

  Borji, Ali ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

Author keywords

Evolutionary algorithms; Function optimization; Political competitions; Political optimization; Politics; Stochastic optimization

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION OPTIMIZATION; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; HEURISTIC OPTIMIZATION METHOD; MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTION; POLITICAL COMPETITION; POLITICS; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATIONS; TRADITIONAL GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

BENCHMARKING; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 46149110318     PISSN: 18125654     EISSN: 18125662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2008.2105.2111     Document Type: Article

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