Cooperative co-evolutionary algorithms for large-scale optimization

The aim of this research is to investigate the use of a divide-and-conquer approach for solving continuous large-scale global optimization problems using evolutionary methods. The curse of dimensionality is a major hindrance to the efficient optimization

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