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What is Lévy Flight

Chapter 50
Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
A random walk based process that is characterized by a series of instantaneous jumps chosen from a probability density function which has a power law tail.
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Cuckoo Search Algorithm
Ömür Tosun (Akdeniz University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5202-6.ch050
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Chapter 14
Cuckoo Search for Optimization and Computational Intelligence
A random process or random walk whose step size distribution obeys the power-law Lévy distribution. Some species of birds and fruitflies seem to obey this behavior in their flight paths.
Published in Chapter: Cuckoo Search for Optimization and Computational Intelligence; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
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Chapter 26
Performances of Adaptive Cuckoo Search Algorithm in Engineering Optimization
A random walk in which the step-lengths have a probability distribution that is heavy-tailed.
Published in Chapter: Performances of Adaptive Cuckoo Search Algorithm in Engineering Optimization; From: Handbook of Research on Modern Optimization Algorithms and Applications in Engineering and Economics
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