Parameter Control in Evolutionary Algorithms: Trends and Challenges

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 167-187

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

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evolutionary algorithm; heuristic search; methodology; parameter control

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

HEURISTIC SEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PARAMETER CONTROL; STATE OF THE ART; WORK-RELATED;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84926472380     PISSN: 1089778X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2014.2308294     Document Type: Review

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