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Optimizing Stochastic Functions Using a Genetic Algorithm: An Aeronautic Military Application

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Air defense systems based onMANPortable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) have demonstrated exceptional effectiveness against aircraft. To counter these systems, an artefact named flare was developed.

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  1. Instituto Technológico de Aeronáutical, São José dos Campos, Brazil

    Hélcio Vieira

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  1. Laboratory LiSSi, University of Paris 12, 61 Avenue du Général de Gaulle, 94010, Créteil, France

    Patrick Siarry

  2. School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Adelaide, Australia

    Zbigniew Michalewicz

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Vieira, H. (2007). Optimizing Stochastic Functions Using a Genetic Algorithm: An Aeronautic Military Application. In: Siarry, P., Michalewicz, Z. (eds) Advances in Metaheuristics for Hard Optimization. Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72960-0_17

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