Why parameter control mechanisms should be benchmarked against random variation

2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 349-355

  Karafotias, Giorgos ^a   Hoogendoorn, Mark ^a   Eiben, A E ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS (EAS); NEW PARAMETERS; PARAMETER CONTROL; PARAMETER VALUES; RANDOM VARIATION; STATIC VALUES;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84881566907     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2013.6557590     Document Type: Conference Paper

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