id: 05858192 dt: a an: 05858192 au: Jeyakumar, G.; Velayutham, C.Shunmuga ti: A comparative study on theoretical and empirical evolution of population variance of differential evolution variants. so: Deb, Kalyanmoy (ed.) et al., Simulated evolution and learning. 8th international conference, SEAL 2010, Kanpur, India, December 1‒4, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-17297-7/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6457, 75-79 (2010). py: 2010 pu: Berlin: Springer la: EN cc: ut: differential evolution; population variance; theoretical and empirical analysis; convergence rate; explorative power ci: li: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-17298-4_7 ab: Summary: In this paper we derive theoretical expressions to compute expected population variance for Differential Evolution (DE) variants ‒ DE/best/1/bin, DE/rand/2/bin and DE/best/2/bin by directly extending Zaharie’s work on DE/rand/1/bin. The study includes comparing the theoretical and empirical evolution of population variance of three DE variants. This work provides insight about the explorative power of the variants and explains their behavior. rv: