A multilevel evolutionary algorithm for optimizing numerical functions

International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 419-430

  Akbari, Reza ^a   Ziarati, Koorush ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Colonization; Genetic algorithm; Meta heuristic; Migration; Multilevel selection; Numerical functions; Regrouping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859147967     PISSN: 19232926     EISSN: 19232934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5267/j.ijiec.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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