makePowellSumFunction function

Powell-Sum Function

The formula that underlies the implementation is given by [REMOVE_ME]$f(\mathbf{x}) = \sum_{i=1}^n |\mathbf{x}_i|^{i+1} [REMOVE_ME_2]$

with $\mathbf{x}_i \in [-1, 1], i = 1, \ldots, n$.

makePowellSumFunction(dimensions)

Arguments

• dimensions: [integer(1)]

  Size of corresponding parameter space.

Returns

[smoof_single_objective_function]

Description

The formula that underlies the implementation is given by

with $\mathbf{x}_i \in [-1, 1], i = 1, \ldots, n$.

References

S. Rahnamyan, H. R. Tizhoosh, N. M. M. Salama, A Novel Population Initialization Method for Accelerating Evolutionary Algorithms, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 1605-1614, 2007.