Handbook of Memetic Algorithms
Editors: Neri, Ferrante, Cotta, Carlos, MOSCATO, PABLO (Eds.)
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Memetic Algorithms (MAs) are computational intelligence structures combining multiple and various operators in order to address optimization problems. The combination and interaction amongst operators evolves and promotes the diffusion of the most successful units and generates an algorithmic behavior which can handle complex objective functions and hard fitness landscapes.
“Handbook of Memetic Algorithms” organizes, in a structured way, all the the most important results in the field of MAs since their earliest definition until now. A broad review including various algorithmic solutions as well as successful applications is included in this book. Each class of optimization problems, such as constrained optimization, multi-objective optimization, continuous vs combinatorial problems, uncertainties, are analysed separately and, for each problem, memetic recipes for tackling the difficulties are given with some successful examples. Although this book contains chapters written by multiple authors, a great attention has been given by the editors to make it a compact and smooth work which covers all the main areas of computational intelligence optimization. It is not only a necessary read for researchers working in the research area, but also a useful handbook for practitioners and engineers who need to address real-world optimization problems. In addition, the book structure makes it an interesting work also for graduate students and researchers is related fields of mathematics and computer science.
- Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Basic Concepts
Pages 3-7
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Evolutionary Algorithms
Pages 9-27
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Local Search
Pages 29-41
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A Primer on Memetic Algorithms
Pages 43-52
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Parametrization and Balancing Local and Global Search
Pages 55-72
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Handbook of Memetic Algorithms
- Editors
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- Ferrante Neri
- Carlos Cotta
- PABLO MOSCATO
- Series Title
- Studies in Computational Intelligence
- Series Volume
- 379
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-23247-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-23247-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-23246-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-26942-4
- Series ISSN
- 1860-949X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVI, 370
- Topics