ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 1, Number 3, 1998, 217 - 299

 

Parabolic Evolutionary Algorithm


Ugur HALICI, Kemal. LEBLEBICIOGLU
Computer Vision and Neural Networks Research Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
E-mail: halici@rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr

Lakhmi.C. JAIN
University of South Australia, Adelaide
The Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia

Beatrice LAZZERINI
University of Pisa, 56126. Pisa, Italy

Lucy I. Kuncheva
School of Mathematics, University of Wales,
Bangor, Gwyneed LL57 1UT, UK

 

Abstract.
This paper presents an evolutionary algorithm speeded up through a new parabolic approximation. A number of examples are presented and simulations are carried out using MATLAB to compare the performance of the new algorithm with the classical evolutionary algorithm.