Differential Evolution: A Handbook for Global Permutation-Based Combinatorial Optimization

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Onwubolu, Godfrey C. (Editor), Davendra, Donald (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, 175
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Applications of Mathematics.

This is the first book devoted entirely to Differential Evolution (DE) for global permutative-based combinatorial optimization. Since its original development, DE has mainly been applied to solving problems characterized by continuous parameters. This means that only a subset of real-world problems...

Table of Contents:

• Motivation for Differential Evolution for Permutative—Based Combinatorial Problems
• Differential Evolution for Permutation—Based Combinatorial Problems
• Forward Backward Transformation
• Relative Position Indexing Approach
• Smallest Position Value Approach
• Discrete/Binary Approach
• Discrete Set Handling.