Differential Evolution
by
Anyong Qing
Differential evolution is a very simple but very powerful stochastic optimizer. This title presents an overview of optimization. It explores the relationship between differential evolution strategies, intrinsic control parameters, non-intrinsic control parameters, and problem features through a parametric study.
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Differential evolution is a very simple but very powerful stochastic optimizer. Since its inception, it has proved very efficient and robust in function optimization and has been applied to solve problems in many scientific and engineering fields. In "Differential Evolution", Dr. Qing begins with an overview of optimization, followed by a state-of-the-art review of differential evolution, including its fundamentals and up-to-date advances. He goes on to explore the relationship between differential evolution strategies, intrinsic control parameters, non-intrinsic control parameters, and problem features through a parametric study. Findings and recommendations on the selection of strategies and intrinsic control parameter values are presented. Lastly, after an introductory review of reported applications in electrical and electronic engineering fields, different research groups demonstrate how the methods can be applied to such areas as: multicast routing, multisite mapping in grid environments, antenna arrays, analog electric circuit sizing, electricity markets, stochastic tracking in video sequences, and color quantization.
This title contains a systematic and comprehensive overview of differential evolution It reviews the latest differential evolution research. It describes a comprehensive parametric study conducted over a large test bed. It shows how methods can be practically applied to mobile communications, grid computing, circuits, image processing, and power engineering. It includes sample applications demonstrated by research groups in the United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, Turkey, China, and Eastern Europe. It provides access to companion website with code examples for download. "Differential Evolution" is ideal for application engineers, who can use the methods described to solve specific engineering problems. It is also a valuable reference for post-graduates and researchers working in evolutionary computation, design optimization and artificial intelligence. Researchers in the optimization field or engineers and managers involved in operations research will also find the book a helpful introduction to the topic.
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General info
Publisher & Imprint:
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
City:
Chicester
Pages:
480
More info:
height 244 mm
width 168 mm
weight 950 gr
thickness 29 mm
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Age recommended:
Professional and scholarly
Subject Indexing & Classification
Dewey: 621.3015196
Library of Congress Subject: Evolution equations
