CMA-ES with restarts for solving CEC 2013 benchmark problems

2013 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 369-376

  Loshchilov, Ilya ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; COMPETITIVE PERFORMANCE; COVARIANCE MATRIX ADAPTATION EVOLUTION STRATEGIES; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; ILL CONDITIONED PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; POPULATION SIZES; REAL-PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84881588447     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2013.6557593     Document Type: Conference Paper

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