GECCO
2010
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2010
Springer
This paper proposes an estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) aiming at addressing globally multimodal problems, i.e., problems that present several global optima. It can be r...
GECCO
2003
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2003
Springer
Abstract. This paper introduces a new technique called adaptive elitistpopulation search method for allowing unimodal function optimization methods to be extended to efficiently lo...
CEC
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
This paper describes and analyzes the aggregation pheromone system (APS) algorithm, which extends ant colony optimization (ACO) to continuous domains. APS uses the collective behav...
CEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2007
IEEE
Abstract— For solving multimodal problems by means of evolutionary algorithms, one often resorts to multistarts or niching methods. The latter approach the question: ‘What is e...