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Defining a Quality Measure Within Crossover: An Electric Bus Scheduling Case Study

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Artificial Evolution (EA 2022)

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Genetic Algorithm (GA) crossover for permutation type problems is difficult due to the avoidance of vertex or value repetition. As a result extensive research into crossover operators has been undertaken with many variants developed. However, these crossover operators operate in a blind manner relying on the mechanics of survival of the fittest. A possible improvement is to introduce a quality measure into crossover enabling high quality edges to be utilised. This paper presents a crossover operator ER-Q that selects parental edges based upon their quality and applies this to an electric bus scheduling problem. Results demonstrate significant improvements in electric bus scheduling over alternative blind crossover operators. This paper also explores the definition of quality in terms of the electric bus scheduling problem noting that quality is difficult to quantify. A range of quality metrics are presented that can be used with differing effectiveness to optimally schedule electric buses.

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  1. University of Bordeaux, Talence, France

    Pierrick Legrand

  2. University of Lille, Lille, France

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  3. University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

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  4. Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, France

    Julien Lepagnot

  5. Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France

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Chitty, D.M., Keedwell, E. (2023). Defining a Quality Measure Within Crossover: An Electric Bus Scheduling Case Study. In: Legrand, P., et al. Artificial Evolution. EA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14091. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42616-2_6

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