Covariance matrix adaptation revisited - The CMSA evolution strategy

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5199 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 123-132

  Beyer, Hans Georg ^a   Sendhoff, Bernhard ^b  

^a VORARLBERG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE EUROPE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; VECTORS; ALGORITHMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION;

ADAPTATION PROCESSES; CONTINUOUS PARAMETERS; COVARIANCE MATRIX ADAPTATION EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; COVARIANCE MATRIX ADAPTATIONS; EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; POPULATION SIZES; STRATEGY PARAMETERS; TEST FUNCTIONS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

ADAPTATION PROCESS; CONTINUOUS PARAMETERS; COVARIANCE MATRIX ADAPTATION; COVARIANCE MATRIX ADAPTATION EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; LARGE POPULATION; SELF ADAPTATION; TEST FUNCTIONS;

EID: 56449126218     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87700-4_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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