Experimental Results in Function Optimization with EDAs in Continuous Domain

This chapter shows experimental results of applying continuous Estimation of Distribution Algorithms to some well known optimization problems. For this UMDAC, MIMICe, EGNABIc, EGNABGe, EGNAee, EMNAglob, 1, and EMNAa algorithms were implemented. Their performance was compared to such of Evolution Strategies (Schwefel, 1995). The optimization problems of choice were Summation cancellation, Griewangk, Sphere model, Rosenbrock generalized, and Ackley.