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Evolutionary Strategies
Much like Genetic Algorithms and the whole field of Evolutionary Computation,
Evolution Strategies are based on the biological process of evolution to
find an optimal solution to a complex problem. Evolution Strategies were
invented in 1963 when two students at the Technical University of Berlin
collaborated on an optimisation experiment at the Institute of Flow
Engineering. During wind tunnel testing they wanted to find the optimal
shape of bodies in a flow, which was then a matter of laborious
intuitive experimentation. One of the students, Ingo Rechenberg, now a
Professor of Bionics and Evolutionary Engineering at the Technical
University of Berlin, hit upon the idea of following the example of
biological mutation by trying random changes in the parameters defining
the shape. The second student, Hans-Paul Schwefel, now the Director of
the Informatik Centrum Dortmund, set about testing the efficiency of the
new method with the help of a supercomputer. From these early experiments,
the idea of Evolution Strategies was born.
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