Toward effective initialization for large-scale search spaces

WSEAS Transactions on Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 355-367

  Rahnamayan, Shahryar ^a   Wang, Gary G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Center based sampling; Evolutionary algorithms; High dimensional search spaces; Large scale problems; Population initialization

Indexed keywords

A-CENTER; APRIORI; BENCHMARK FUNCTIONS; CANDIDATE SOLUTION; CENTER-BASED; CENTER-BASED SAMPLING; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL SEARCH SPACES; HYPERCUBE; LARGE-SCALE PROBLEM; LARGE-SCALE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL PROOF; MONTE CARLO; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; POPULATION INITIALIZATION; POPULATION-BASED ALGORITHM; PSEUDO RANDOM; SAMPLING METHOD; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; SEARCH SPACES;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; SAMPLING;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 67849104801     PISSN: 11092777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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