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ICALT
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Competency-Based Intelligent Curriculum Sequencing Using Particle Swarms
As a part of many e-learning initiatives, a set of learning units must be arranged in a particular order to meet the learners’ requirements. This process is known as sequencing ...
Luis de Marcos, Roberto Barchino, José-Javi...
GECCO
2007
Springer
124views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Origin of bursts
The phenomenon of particle bursts, a well-known feature of PSO is investigated. Their origin is concluded to lie in multiplicative stochasticity, previously encountered in the stu...
Tim Blackwell, Daniel Bratton
GECCO
2005
Springer
157views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Simple addition of ranking method for constrained optimization in evolutionary algorithms
During the optimization of a constrained problem using evolutionary algorithms (EAs), an individual in the population can be described using three important properties, i.e., obje...
Pei Yee Ho, Kazuyuki Shimizu
GECCO
2007
Springer
212views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
An experimental analysis of evolution strategies and particle swarm optimisers using design of experiments
The success of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) depends crucially on finding suitable parameter settings. Doing this by hand is a very time consuming job without the guarantee to ...
Oliver Kramer, Bartek Gloger, Andreas Goebels
JGO
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
The oracle penalty method
A new and universal penalty method is introduced in this contribution. It is especially intended to be applied in stochastic metaheuristics like genetic algorithms, particle swarm...
Martin Schlüter, Matthias Gerdts