Recent Advances in Memetic Algorithms

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hart, William E. (Editor), Smith, J. E. (Editor), Krasnogor, N. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 166
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Software engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Probabilities.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

Memetic algorithms are evolutionary algorithms that apply a local search process to refine solutions to hard problems. Memetic algorithms are the subject of intense scientific research and have been successfully applied to a multitude of real-world problems ranging from the construction of optimal u...