The Ackley Problem

Description:

      The Ackley Problem [ACK87] is a minimization problem. Originaly this problem was defined for two dimensions, but the problem has been generalized to N dimensions [BAC96].

     Formally, this problem can be described as finding a string , with , that minimizes the following equation:

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Instances and best known solutions for those instances:

      In order to define an instance of this function we need to provide the dimension of the problem (N). The optimum solution of the problem is the vector v = (0,...,0) with F(v) = 0.

Related Papers:

[ACK87] D. H. Ackley. "A connectionist machine for genetic hillclimbing". Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1987.

[BAC96] T. Bäck. "Evolutionary algorithms in theory and practice". Oxford University Press, 1996.

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