Mutative σ-self-adaptation can beat cumulative step size adaptation when using weighted recombination

GECCO'08: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 487-494

  Beyer, Hans Georg ^a   Melkozerov, Alexander ^a  

^a VORARLBERG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cumulative step length adaptation; Evolution strategy; Mutation strength self adaptation; Weighted multirecombination

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; LEARNING PARAMETERS; MULTIRECOMBINATION; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; SELF ADAPTATION; STEADY-STATE BEHAVIORS; STEP LENGTH ADAPTATIONS; STEP-SIZE ADAPTATIONS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 56449110215     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1389095.1389189     Document Type: Conference Paper

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