Empirical comparison of niching methods on hybrid composition functions

2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2194-2201

  Yu, L ^a   Suganthan, P N ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL THEORY; FUNCTION EVALUATION; FUNCTIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPOSITION FUNCTIONS; COMPUTATION TIMES; DETERMINISTIC CROWDING; EMPIRICAL COMPARISONS; MAIN CONTROL PARAMETERS; NICHING GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NICHING METHODS; REAL PARAMETERS; SEARCHING ABILITIES; TEST FUNCTIONS; TOURNAMENT SELECTIONS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 55749114198     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2008.4631090     Document Type: Conference Paper

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