Niching the CMA-ES via nearest-better clustering

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1711-1717

  Preuss, Mike ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Black box optimization; Niching

Indexed keywords

BLACK-BOX OPTIMIZATION; CLUSTERING SCHEME; LOCAL SEARCH ALGORITHM; NICHING; TEST SETS;

BENCHMARKING; OPTIMIZATION;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77955968692     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1830761.1830793     Document Type: Conference Paper

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