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We investigate the application of two heuristic methods, genetic algorithms and tabu/scatter search, to the optimisation of realistic portfolios. The model is based on the classical mean-variance approach, but enhanced with floor and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-02 Franco Busetti

Traditionally Genetic Algorithm has been used for optimization of unimodal and multimodal functions. Earlier researchers worked with constant probabilities of GA control operators like crossover, mutation etc. for tuning the optimization in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Avijit Basak

This paper presents an optimization technique for the multi-pass face milling process. Genetic algorithm (GA) is used to obtain the optimum cutting parameters by minimizing the unit production cost for a given amount of material removal.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2009-02-05 Sourabh Saha

The aim of global optimization is to find the global optimum of arbitrary classes of functions, possibly highly multimodal ones. In this paper we focus on the subproblem of global optimization for differentiable functions and we propose an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Louis Faury , Flavian Vasile , Clément Calauzènes , Olivier Fercoq

This paper presents our computational methodology using Genetic Algorithms (GA) for exploring the nature of RNA editing. These models are constructed using several genetic editing characteristics that are gleaned from the RNA editing system…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 C. Huang , L. M. Rocha

Image classification is an essential task in computer vision, which aims to categorise a set of images into different groups based on some visual criteria. Existing methods, such as convolutional neural networks, have been successfully…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Benjamin Patrick Evans , Harith Al-Sahaf , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has demonstrated significant potential in certain real-world industrial applications, yet its broader deployment remains limited by inherent challenges such as sample inefficiency and unstable learning dynamics.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Tom Maus , Asma Atamna , Tobias Glasmachers

This paper addresses the path selection problem from a known sender to the receiver. The proposed work shows path selection using genetic algorithm(GA)and simulated annealing (SA) approaches. In genetic algorithm approach, the multi point…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-08 T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair , Kavitha Sooda

The user-level brokers in grids consider individual application QoS requirements and minimize their cost without considering demands from other users. This results in contention for resources and sub-optimal schedules. Meta-scheduling in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-03-10 Saurabh Garg , Pramod Konugurthi , Rajkumar Buyya

An algorithm is described that adaptively learns a non-linear mutation distribution. It works by training a denoising autoencoder (DA) online at each generation of a genetic algorithm to reconstruct a slowly decaying memory of the best…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Alexander W. Churchill , Siddharth Sigtia , Chrisantha Fernando

One of the main limitations of utilizing optimal wavefront shaping in imaging and authentication applications is the slow speed of the optimization algorithms currently being used. To address this problem we develop a micro-genetic…

In real life, it is always an urge to reach our goal in minimum effort i.e., it should have a minimum constrained path. The path may be shortest route in practical life, either physical or electronic medium. The scenario is to represents…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Sounak Sadhukhan , Samar Sen Sarma

Mobile robotic platforms are an indispensable tool for various scientific and industrial applications. Robots are used to undertake missions whose execution is constrained by various factors, such as the allocated time or their remaining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Nikolaos Tsiogkas , David M. Lane

We propose a framework of genetic algorithms which use multi-level hierarchies to solve an optimization problem by searching over the space of simpler objective functions. We solve a variant of Travelling Salesman Problem called…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Harshavardhan Kamarthi , Kousik Krishnan

Community detection in complex networks is a topic of considerable recent interest within the scientific community. For dealing with the problem that genetic algorithm are hardly applied to community detection, we propose a genetic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Dongxiao He , Zhe Wang , Bin Yang , Chunguang Zhou

Ongoing progress in computational intelligence (CI) has led to an increased desire to apply CI techniques for the purpose of improving software engineering processes, particularly software testing. Existing state-of-the-art automated…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Jarrod Goschen , Anna Sergeevna Bosman , Stefan Gruner

The compact Genetic Algorithm (cGA), parameterized by its hypothetical population size $K$, offers a low-memory alternative to evolving a large offspring population of solutions. It evolves a probability distribution, biasing it towards…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Cella Florescu , Marc Kaufmann , Johannes Lengler , Ulysse Schaller

In Search Based Software Engineering, Genetic Programming has been used for bug fixing, performance improvement and parallelisation of programs through the modification of source code. Where an evolutionary computation algorithm, such as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-11-22 Brendan Cody-Kenny , Stephen Barrett

This paper is a comprehensive literature review of Biased Random-Key Genetic Algorithms (BRKGA). BRKGA is a metaheuristic that employs random-key-based chromosomes with biased, uniform, and elitist mating strategies in a genetic algorithm…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Mariana A. Londe , Luciana S. Pessoa , Carlos E. Andrade , Mauricio G. C. Resende

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