An alternative way of presenting statistical test results when evaluating the performance of stochastic approaches

Neurocomputing

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 235-238

  Weise, Thomas ^a   Chiong, Raymond ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Directed acyclic graph; Hasse diagram; Optimization; Statistical tests; Stochastic algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; DIRECTED GRAPHS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; GRAPHIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL TESTS; TESTING;

DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH (DAG); HASSE DIAGRAMS; MULTIPLE PROCESS; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PARTIAL ORDER; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; STOCHASTIC ALGORITHMS; STOCHASTIC APPROACH;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

EID: 84923327840     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: 18728286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2014.06.071     Document Type: Article

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