Abstract:
Parameterized optimization problems (POPs) belong to a class of NP problems which are hard to be tackled by traditional methods. However, the relationship of the paramete...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Parameterized optimization problems (POPs) belong to a class of NP problems which are hard to be tackled by traditional methods. However, the relationship of the parameters (usually represented as k) makes a POP different from ordinary NP-complete problem in designing algorithms. In this paper, GEAS, an evolutionary computing algorithm (also can be seen as a framework) to solve POPs is proposed. This algorithm organically unifies genetic algorithm (GA) framework and the idea of evolutionary strategy (ES). It can maintain diversity while with a small population and has an intrinsic parallelism property:each individual in the population can solve a same problem that only has a different parameter. GEAS is delicately tested on an NP-complete problem, the Critical Link Set Problem. Experiment results show that GEAS can converge much faster and obtain more precise solution than GA which uses the same genetic operators.
Published in: 2014 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)
Date of Conference: 06-11 July 2014
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 22 September 2014
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