Making and breaking power laws in evolutionary algorithm population dynamics

Memetic Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 125-137

  Whitacre, James M ^a   Sarker, Ruhul A ^b   Pham, Q Tuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Algorithm analysis; Evolutionary algorithms; Genealogical graphs; Historical coupling; Optimization; Population dynamics; Population topology

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349197205     PISSN: 18659284     EISSN: 18659292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12293-009-0009-8     Document Type: Article

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