Tuning optimization algorithms for real-world problems by means of surrogate modeling

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 401-408

  Preuss, Mike ^a   Rudolph, Günter ^a   Wessing, Simon ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Experimental study; Parameter tuning; Surrogate model

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; META HEURISTICS; METAHEURISTIC; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER-TUNING; REAL-WORLD PROBLEM; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; SURROGATE MODEL; SURROGATE MODELING;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FUEL ADDITIVES; FUNCTION EVALUATION; OPTIMIZATION; TUNING;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 77955911177     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1830483.1830558     Document Type: Conference Paper

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