The Theory of Evolution Strategies
Evolutionary Algorithms, in particular Evolution Strategies, Genetic Algorithms, or Evolutionary Programming, have found wide acceptance as robust optimization algorithms in the last ten years. Compared with the broad propagation and the resulting practic
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Hans-Georg Beyer
The Theory of Evolution Strategies With 52 Figures and 9 Tables
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Author Dr. Hans-Georg Beyer Department of Computer Scienee University of Dortmund 44221 Dortmund, Germany [email protected]
Series Editors G. Rozenberg (Managing Editor) Th. Băek, A.E. Eiben, T.N. Kok, H.P. Spaink Leiden Center for Natural Computing Leiden University Nie1s Bohrweg 1 2333 CA Leiden, The Netherlands [email protected]
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Beyer, Hans-Georg: The theory of evolution strategies/Hans-Georg Beyer. Berlin; Heidelberg; New York; Barcelona; Hong Kong; London; Milan; Paris; Singapore; Tokyo: Springer, 2001 (Natural computing series) ISBN 978-3-642-08670-0 ISBN 978-3-662-04378-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-04378-3
ACM Computing Classification (1998): G.1.6, E1.2, G.3-4, 1.2.8, J.3
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In Memory of my Parents
Preface Most of us - we should be aware of this -love our hypotheses, and it is, as I said once, a painful, though a rejuvenating and healthy, early-morning exercise, to throw daily a favorite hypothesis overboard. KONRAD LORENZ
Evolutionary Algorithms (EA), such as Evolution Strategies (ES), Genetic Algorithms (GA), and Evolutionary Programming (EP), have found a broad acceptance as robust optimization algorithms in the last ten years. The idea of optimizing systems through imitating nature and applying the "genetic operators" such as selection, mutation, and recombination has a certain appeal. First of all, the fundamental algorithms are attracti
