Frank Hoffmeister, Eunet Deutschland Gmbh, Joachim Sprave
Unlike scientific test functions, real world problems are in general constrained optimization problems. Furthermore, due to undetermined first and second order derivatives only direct optimization...
CONSTITUTIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF EU MEMBERSHIP: A VIEW FROM THE COMMISSION (2007)
Summary: This article reviews the constitutional implications of EU membership from a European Commission perspective. It first recalls the ratification procedures in both the old and the new Member...
Germany: Status of European Convention on Human Rights in domestic law (2006)
Status of the European Convention on Human Rights in German domestic law—the right to respect for one's family life—custody and access of a father to his child born out of wedlock and adopted by...
Applications of Evolutionary Algorithms (1993)
Thomas Back, Frank Hoffmeister, Hans-Paul Schwefel
etics, 21(2):445--452, 1991. [Wag85] H. Wagner. Procedures for the solution of the unit commitment problem. In H.J. Wacker, editor, Applied Optimization Techniques in Energy Problems, pages 449--470,...
Frank Hoffmeister, Thomas Bäck
Evolutionary Algorithms are direct random search algorithms which imitate the principles of natural evolution as a method to solve adaptation (learning) tasks in general. As such they have several...
Global Optimization by Means of Evolutionary Algorithms (1991)
Thomas Bäck, Frank Hoffmeister
ing from the work of Holland [Hol75], a GA can be formulated as an 8--tuple: GA = (P 0 ; ; l; s; ae;\Omega ; f; t) (6) where P 0 = (a 0 1 ; : : : ; a 0 ) 2 I I = f0; 1g l initial population 2 N...
Extended Selection Mechanisms in Genetic Algorithms (1991)
Thomas Bäck, Frank Hoffmeister
Common selection mechanisms used in Evolutionary Algorithms are combined to form some generalized variants of selection. These are applied to a Genetic Algorithm and are subject to an experimental...
A Survey of Evolution Strategies (1991)
Thomas Bäck, Frank Hoffmeister, Hans-Paul Schwefel
Similar to Genetic Algorithms, Evolution Strategies (ESs) are algorithms which imitate the principles of natural evolution as a method to solve parameter optimization problems. The development of...
Adaptive Search by Evolutionary Algorithms (1990)
Thomas Bäck, Frank Hoffmeister
Evolution Strategies (ESs) and Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are compared in a formal way. It is shown, that both algorithms are identical with respect to their major working scheme, but nevertheless they...
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