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Multiprocessor task scheduling is an important and computationally difficult problem. This paper proposes a comparison study of genetic algorithm and list scheduling algorithm. Both algorithms are naturally parallelizable but have heavy…

Performance · Computer Science 2010-02-08 S. R. Vijayalakshmi , G. Padmavathi

We investigate the possibility of encoding multiple solutions of a problem in a single chromosome. The best solution encoded in an individual will represent (will provide the fitness of) that individual. In order to obtain some benefits the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Mihai Oltean

This paper looks in detail at how an evolutionary algorithm attempts to solve instances from the multimodal problem generator. The paper shows that in order to consistently reach the global optimum, an evolutionary algorithm requires a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Fernando G. Lobo , Claudio F. Lima

Evaluating a global optimal point in many global optimization problems in large space is required to more calculations. In this paper, there is presented a new approach for the continuous functions optimization with rotational mutation and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Masoumeh Vali

Genetic Programming is an evolutionary algorithm that generates computer programs, or mathematical expressions, to solve complex problems. In this Guide, we demonstrate how to use Genetic Programming to develop surrogate models to mitigate…

Quantum Genetic Algorithms (QGAs) are an emerging field of multivariate quantum optimization that emulate Darwinian evolution and natural selection, with vast applications in chemistry and engineering. The appropriate application of fitness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Dennis Lima , Rakesh Saini , Saif Al-Kuwari

In this paper, the author proposes optimal tree as a "gauge" for the generation of the initial population at random in the Genetic Algorithms (GA) to benchmark against the good and the bad parent tours. Thus, without having the so-called…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-04-12 Sing Liew

We demonstrate how a genetic algorithm solves the problem of minimizing the resources used for network coding, subject to a throughput constraint, in a multicast scenario. A genetic algorithm avoids the computational complexity that makes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Minkyu Kim , Varun Aggarwal , Una-May O'Reilly , Muriel Medard , Wonsik Kim

In this paper, we study the influence of the selective pressure on the performance of cellular genetic algorithms. Cellular genetic algorithms are genetic algorithms where the population is embedded on a toroidal grid. This structure makes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-12-18 David Simoncini , Philippe Collard , Sébastien Verel , Manuel Clergue

Tensor networks are a tool first employed in the context of many-body quantum physics that now have a wide range of uses across the computational sciences, from numerical methods to machine learning. Methods integrating tensor networks into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 John Gardiner , Javier Lopez-Piqueres

We propose genetic algorithms, which are robust optimization techniques inspired by natural selection, to enhance the versatility of digital quantum simulations. In this sense, we show that genetic algorithms can be employed to increase the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 U. Las Heras , U. Alvarez-Rodriguez , E. Solano , M. Sanz

Population diversity is essential for avoiding premature convergence in Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and for the effective use of crossover. Yet the dynamics of how diversity emerges in populations are not well understood. We use rigorous…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Duc-Cuong Dang , Tobias Friedrich , Timo Kötzing , Martin S. Krejca , Per Kristian Lehre , Pietro S. Oliveto , Dirk Sudholt , Andrew M. Sutton

In this paper, we introduce, MultiGA, an optimization framework which applies genetic algorithm principles to address complex natural language tasks and reasoning problems by sampling from a diverse population of LLMs to initialize the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Isabelle Diana May-Xin Ng , Tharindu Cyril Weerasooriya , Haitao Zhu , Wei Wei

Automated program repair techniques aim to aid software developers with the challenging task of fixing bugs. In heuristic-based program repair, a search space of program variants, created via mutations on software, is explored to find…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Carol Hanna , Aymeric Blot , Justyna Petke

The most common representation in evolutionary computation are bit strings. This is ideal to model binary decision variables, but less useful for variables taking more values. With very little theoretical work existing on how to use…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Benjamin Doerr , Carola Doerr , Timo Kötzing

This paper surveys results on complexity of the optimal recombination problem (ORP), which consists in finding the best possible offspring as a result of a recombination operator in a genetic algorithm, given two parent solutions. We…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Anton V. Eremeev , Julia V. Kovalenko

Several mating restriction techniques have been implemented in Evolutionary Algorithms to promote diversity. From similarity-based selection to niche preservation, the general goal is to avoid premature convergence by not having fitness…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-09 José Maria Simões , Nuno Lourenço , Penousal Machado

A genetic algorithm is suitable for exploring large search spaces as it finds an approximate solution. Because of this advantage, genetic algorithm is effective in exploring vast and unknown space such as molecular search space. Though the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Yurim Lee , Gydam Choi , Minsung Yoon , Cheongwon Kim

We present a multi-objective evolutionary optimization algorithm that uses Gaussian process (GP) regression-based models to select trial solutions in a multi-generation iterative procedure. In each generation, a surrogate model is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xiaobiao Huang , Minghao Song , Zhe Zhang

Recently, it has been proven that evolutionary algorithms produce good results for a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems. Some of the considered problems are tackled by evolutionary algorithms that use a representation which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Benjamin Doerr , Anton Eremeev , Frank Neumann , Madeleine Theile , Christian Thyssen