{ "id": "0709.1020", "version": "v1", "published": "2007-09-07T08:41:06.000Z", "updated": "2007-09-07T08:41:06.000Z", "title": "Evolution Strategies in Optimization Problems", "authors": [ "Pedro A. F. Cruz", "Delfim F. M. Torres" ], "comment": "Partially presented at the 5th Junior European Meeting on \"Control and Information Technology\" (JEM'06), Sept 20-22, 2006, Tallinn, Estonia. To appear in \"Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences -- Physics Mathematics\"", "journal": "Proc. Estonian Acad. Sci. Phys. Math., 2007, 56(4), 299--309", "categories": [ "math.OC" ], "abstract": "Evolution Strategies are inspired in biology and part of a larger research field known as Evolutionary Algorithms. Those strategies perform a random search in the space of admissible functions, aiming to optimize some given objective function. We show that simple evolution strategies are a useful tool in optimal control, permitting to obtain, in an efficient way, good approximations to the solutions of some recent and challenging optimal control problems.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2007-09-07T08:41:06.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "49M99", "90C59", "68W20" ], "keywords": [ "optimization problems", "challenging optimal control problems", "larger research field", "simple evolution strategies", "efficient way" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2007arXiv0709.1020C" } } }