Scalable Optimization via Probabilistic Modeling

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pelikan, Martin (Editor), Sastry, Kumara (Editor), CantúPaz, Erick (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 33
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Artificial intelligence.; Probabilities.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

This book focuses like a laser beam on one of the hottest topics in evolutionary computation over the last decade or so: estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs). EDAs are an important current technique that is leading to breakthroughs in genetic and evolutionary computation and in optimization...