An improved cross-entropy method applied to inverse problems

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 327-330

  An, Siguang ^a,b   Yang, Shiyou ^a   Ho, S L ^c   Ni, Peihong ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA JILIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cross entropy method; global optimization; stochastic algorithm; TEAM workshop problem

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; CROSS-ENTROPY METHOD; EXPLOITATION AND EXPLORATIONS; MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONS; STOCHASTIC ALGORITHMS; TEAM WORKSHOP PROBLEM; TEAM WORKSHOP PROBLEM 22;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 84863063099     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2011.2173303     Document Type: Article

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