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Convergence

approach to a stationary system state, where the variation rate of the considered state variables goes to zero. It is necessary to distinguish gene convergence (or premature convergence) from the convergence to optimal states. The latter is divided into local and global convergence depending on whether a local or a global optimum is approached.



Hans-Georg Beyer 2002-02-25