Population distributions in biogeography-based optimization algorithms with elitism

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 991-996

  Simon, Dan ^a   Ergezer, Mehmet ^a   Du, Dawei ^a  

^a Cleveland State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography based optimization; Combinatorics; Evolutionary algorithms; Markov analysis; Probability

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORICS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HIGH MUTATION RATE; MARKOV ANALYSIS; MUTATION RATES; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

CYBERNETICS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 74849116370     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346058     Document Type: Conference Paper

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