A study on scalable representations for evolutionary optimization of ground structures

Evolutionary Computation

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 453-479

  Devert, Alexandre ^a   Weise, Thomas ^a   Tang, Ke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Artificial embryogeny; Evolution strategies; Genetic algorithms; Problems representation; Structural mechanics; Topological optimization

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL EMBRYOGENY; EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; PROBLEMS REPRESENTATION; STRUCTURAL MECHANICS; TOPOLOGICAL OPTIMIZATION;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENETIC ALGORITHMS; SCALABILITY; TRUSSES;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84864671691     PISSN: 10636560     EISSN: 15309304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/EVCO_a_00054     Document Type: Article

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