RANDOM BUILDING BLOCK OPERATOR FOR GENETIC ALGORITHMS

Ghodrat Moghadampour

2011

Abstract

Genetic algorithms work on randomly generated populations, which are refined toward the desired optima. The refinement process is carried out mainly by genetic operators. Most typical genetic operators are crossover and mutation. However, experience has proved that these operators in their classical form are not capable of refining the population efficiently enough. Moreover, due to lack of sufficient variation in the population, the genetic algorithm might stagnate at local optimum points. In this work a new dynamic mutation operator with variable mutation rate is proposed. This operator does not require any pre-fixed parameter. It dynamically takes into account the size (number of bits) of the individual during runtime and replaces a randomly selected section of the individual by a randomly generated bit string of the same size. All the bits of the randomly generated string are not necessarily different from bits of the selected section from the individual. Experimentation with 17 test functions, 34 test cases and 1020 test runs proved the superiority of the proposed dynamic mutation operator over single-point mutation operator with 1%, 5% and 8% mutation rates and the multipoint mutation operator with 5%, 8% and 15% mutation rates.

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Moghadampour G. (2011). RANDOM BUILDING BLOCK OPERATOR FOR GENETIC ALGORITHMS . In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-54-6, pages 54-62. DOI: 10.5220/0003441400540062


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@conference{iceis11,
author={Ghodrat Moghadampour},
title={RANDOM BUILDING BLOCK OPERATOR FOR GENETIC ALGORITHMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2011},
pages={54-62},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003441400540062},
isbn={978-989-8425-54-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - RANDOM BUILDING BLOCK OPERATOR FOR GENETIC ALGORITHMS
SN - 978-989-8425-54-6
AU - Moghadampour G.
PY - 2011
SP - 54
EP - 62
DO - 10.5220/0003441400540062