Multimodal problems, premature convergence versus computation effort in dynamic design optimization

Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering 2011, WCE 2011

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 2537-2542

  Alugongo, A A ^a  

^a VAAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Computation; Convergence; Design; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; COMPUTATION EFFORT; CONVERGENCE; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; DYNAMIC DESIGN; ENGINEERING PROBLEMS; EXPLOITATION CAPACITY; GLOBAL OPTIMUM; HYBRID ALGORITHMS; INVERSE OPERATORS; LOCAL OPTIMA; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MULTI-MODAL; MULTIMODAL MODELS; MULTIMODAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; MULTIMODAL PROBLEMS; NICHE HYBRID GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NICHE TECHNIQUE; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; POPULATION DIVERSITY; PREMATURE CONVERGENCE; SEARCH ZONES; SIMPLEX METHODS; SIMPLEX SEARCH; VEHICLE SUSPENSION SYSTEMS;

DESIGN; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OPTIMIZATION; THREE TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS; VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 80755148658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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