Multimodal Optimization by Means of Evolutionary Algorithms

The field of research covered by this book is niching/multimodal optimization, with an emphasis on evolutionary computation methods, explaining the state of the art and relating this research to a model-based view of the basin identification problem. The algorithms suggested by the author are compared to alternative recent methods on current benchmarks. This book is useful for researchers and practitioners in the area of evolutionary computing.

Dr. Mike Preus got his Ph.D. in the Technische Universitat Dortmund and he is now a researcher at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster. He has published in the leading journals and conferences on various aspects of computational intelligence, in particular evolutionary computing, heuristics, search and multicriteria optimization and served on many of the key academic conference committees, journal boards and review committees in this field. He is a leading figure in the application of computational and artificial intelligence to games.