A semi-continuous segmental probability model, which can be considered as a special form of continuous mixture segmental probability model with continuous output probability density functions sharing in a mixture Gaussian density codebook, is proposed in this paper. The amount of training data required, as well as the computational complexity of the semi-continuous segmental probability model(S...

Many hard optimization problems can only be effectively handled by meta-heuristic methods. Some continuous optimization problems have specifi c characteristics that demand a particular interest. These features include the location of the optima in a specifi c region of search space. Hence the main goal of this paper is assessing the performance of some outstanding population-based meta-heuristi...