A EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO SOLVE SET COVERING

Broderick Crawford, Carolina Lagos, Carlos Castro, Fernando Paredes

2007

Abstract

In this paper we solve the classical Set Covering Problem comparing two evolutive techniques: Genetic Algorithms and Cultural Algorithms. We solve this problem with a Cultural Evolutionary Architecture maintaining knowledge of Diversity and Fitness learned over each generation during the search process and we compare it with a Genetic Algorithm using the same crossover and mutation mechanisms. Our results indicate that the approach is able to produce very competitive results in compare with other Metaheuristics and Approximation Algorithms.

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Crawford B., Lagos C., Castro C. and Paredes F. (2007). A EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO SOLVE SET COVERING . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-89-4, pages 356-360. DOI: 10.5220/0002406703560360


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@conference{iceis07,
author={Broderick Crawford and Carolina Lagos and Carlos Castro and Fernando Paredes},
title={A EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO SOLVE SET COVERING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={356-360},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002406703560360},
isbn={978-972-8865-89-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - A EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO SOLVE SET COVERING
SN - 978-972-8865-89-4
AU - Crawford B.
AU - Lagos C.
AU - Castro C.
AU - Paredes F.
PY - 2007
SP - 356
EP - 360
DO - 10.5220/0002406703560360