Organization & Editorial Activities: Edited Journal Special Issues

Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications
Volume 15, Issue 11, December 2011
Special Issue on scalability of evolutionary algorithms and other metaheuristics for large-scale continuous optimization problems

M. Lozano, D. Molina and F. Herrera

Table of Contents

Editorial scalability of evolutionary algorithms and other metaheuristics for large-scale continuous optimization problems
M. Lozano, D. Molina and F. Herrera
p. 2085-2087, doi: 10.1007/s00500-010-0639-2

Shuffle or update parallel differential evolution for large-scale optimization
M. Weber, F. Neri and V. Tirronen
p. 2089-2107, doi: 10.1007/s00500-010-0640-9

Role differentiation and malleable mating for differential evolution: an analysis on large-scale optimisation
C. García-Martínez, F. J. Rodríguez and M. Lozano
p. 2109-2126, doi: 10.1007/s00500-010-0641-8

Enhanced opposition-based differential evolution for solving high-dimensional continuous optimization problems
H. Wang, Z. Wu and S. Rahnamayan
p. 2127-2140, doi: 10.1007/s00500-010-0642-7

Scalability of generalized adaptive differential evolution for large-scale continuous optimization
Z. Yang, K. Tang and X. Yao
p. 2141-2155, doi: 10.1007/s00500-010-0643-6

Self-adaptive differential evolution algorithm using population size reduction and three strategies
J. Brest and M. S. Maucec
p. 2157-2174, doi: 10.1007/s00500-010-0644-5

Self-adaptive differential evolution with multi-trajectory search for large-scale optimization
S. Zhao, P. N. Suganthan and S. Das
p. 2175-2185, doi: 10.1007/s00500-010-0645-4

A MOS-based dynamic memetic differential evolution algorithm for continuous optimization: a scalability test
A. LaTorre, S. Muelas and J. Peña
p. 2187-2199, doi: 10.1007/s00500-010-0646-3

Memetic algorithms based on local search chains for large scale continuous optimisation problems: MA-SSW-Chains
D. Molina, M. Lozano, A. M. Sánchez and F. Herrera
p. 2201-2220, doi: 10.1007/s00500-010-0647-2

Restart particle swarm optimization with velocity modulation: a scalability test
J. García-Nieto and E. Alba
p. 2221-2232, doi: 10.1007/s00500-010-0648-1

An incremental particle swarm for large-scale continuous optimization problems: an example of tuning-in-the-loop (re)design of optimization algorithms
M. A. Montes de Oca, D. Aydin and T. Stützle
p. 2233-2255, doi: 10.1007/s00500-010-0649-0

Path relinking for large-scale global optimization
A. Duarte, R. Martí and F. Gortazar
p. 2257-2273, doi: 10.1007/s00500-010-0650-7

EM323: a line search based algorithm for solving high-dimensional continuous non-linear optimization problems
V. Gardeux, R. Chelouah, P. Siarry and F. Glover
p. 2275-2285, doi: 10.1007/s00500-010-0651-6

VXQR: derivative-free unconstrained optimization based on QR factorizations
A. Neumaier, H. Fendl, H. Schilly and T. Leitner
p. 2287-2298, doi: 10.1007/s00500-010-0652-5