Evoptool: An extensible toolkit for evolutionary optimization algorithms comparison

2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2010 - 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Valentini, Gabriele ^a   Malagò, Luigi ^a   Matteucci, Matteo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; COMMON PLATFORM; COMPLEX TASK; ESTIMATION OF DISTRIBUTION ALGORITHMS; EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATIONS; META HEURISTICS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CALCULATIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 79959526177     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2010.5586138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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