Unconventional initialization methods for differential evolution

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 219, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4474-4494

  Ali, Musrrat ^a   Pant, Millie ^b   Abraham, Ajith ^c  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^c SCIENTIFIC NETWORK FOR INNOVATION AND RESEARCH EXCELLENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential evolution; Initial population; Nonlinear simplex method; Quadratic interpolation; Random numbers; Stochastic optimization

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; INITIAL POPULATION; NONLINEAR SIMPLEX METHOD; QUADRATIC INTERPOLATION; RANDOM NUMBERS; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATIONS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INTERPOLATION; OPTIMIZATION;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 84871223537     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2012.10.053     Document Type: Article

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