Locating and characterizing the stationary points of the extended Rosenbrock function

Evolutionary Computation

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 437-453

  Kok, Schalk ^a   Sandrock, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Benchmark functions; Numerical optimization; Saddle points; Stationary points

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 70349615421     PISSN: 10636560     EISSN: 15309304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/evco.2009.17.3.437     Document Type: Article

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