Chaotic behavior in evolution strategies

✍ Scribed by G.W. Greenwood

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 515 KB
• Volume: 109
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-2789
• DOI: 10.1016/s0167-2789(97)00072-9

✦ Synopsis

Evolution strategies are heuristic optimization techniques which emulate biological systems. In this paper first it is shown that they can be formulated as one-dimensional maps and that they can be extremely sensitive to initial conditions. Then it is shown how this chaotic behavior can be exploited to efficiently conduct search operations for a globally optimal solution.