Evolution Strategy

Evolution Strategy was developed by Rechenberg and Schwefel at the Technical University of Berlin in the mid-1960s. For the brief history of Evolution Strategy refer [1].

Benchmark Functions

1. Ackley
2. Rastrigin
3. Rosenbrock
4. Schwefel
5. Sphere

Requirements

• g++

Commands

$ make
$ ./main function dimension runs

Results

/plot

• <function>_<dimension>_<run>.txt: Contains plotting related data

/results

• best.txt: The Global best value of all the runs
• time.txt: Total time required for all the runs
• measures.txt: Mean and Standard deviation of the global best value of all the runs

References

[1] Hans-Georg Beyer and Hans-Paul Schwefel, Evolution strategies - a comprehensive introduction, Natural Computing 1 (2002), no. 1, 3–52

[2] A. E. Eiben and James E Smith, Introduction to Evolutionary Computing, Natural Computing Series (2003), no. 1, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 300