On the Convergence of Immune Algorithms

• Published in: 2007 IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence pp. 409 - 415
• Main Authors: Cutello, V., Nicosia, G., Romeo, M., Oliveto, P.S.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.04.2007
• Subjects: Algorithm design and analysis; Computational intelligence; Computer science; Convergence; Evolutionary computation; Genetic algorithms; Immune system; Intelligent agent; Organisms; Upper bound

Immune algorithms have been used widely and successfully in many computational intelligence areas including optimization. Given the large number of variants of each operator of this class of algorithms, this paper presents a study of the convergence properties of immune algorithms in general, conduc...