An agent-based memetic algorithm (AMA) for nonlinear optimization with equality constraints

2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 70-77

  Barkat Ullah, Abu S S M ^a   Sarker, Ruhul ^a   Lokan, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; BASIC CONCEPTS; BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; EQUALITY CONSTRAINTS; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; INDIVIDUAL AGENT; LEARNING PROCESS; MEMETIC ALGORITHMS; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 70449737866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2009.4982932     Document Type: Conference Paper

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