面向多目标优化的一种混合进化算法

针对多目标优化问题,设计一种基于量子计算和非支配排序遗传算法相结合的智能算法进行求解,综合量子算法和非支配排序遗传算法的优点,在局部搜索和全局搜索之间进行权衡。混合算法采用量子比特对问题的解进行编码,基于量子旋转门算子、分散交叉算子以及高斯变异算子对种群进行更新。进行局部深入搜索时,用一个解在目标空间中跟理想点的距离来评价该解的优劣;进行全局搜索时,基于非支配排序遗传算法中的有效前沿的划分和解之间的拥挤距离来评价某个解。最后,在经典的测试函数ZDT5上对所提混合算法进行了测试。通过对比分析若干项针对有效解集的评价指标,该混合算法在跟最优有效前沿的逼近程度以及有效解集分布的均匀程度上均优于目前得到广泛应用的非支配排序遗传算法。     

一类最小-最大车辆路线问题的启发式算法研究

针对个性化和多样性的需求,建立以缩短最长子线路为目标的最小-最大车辆路径问题模型, 并提出启发式算法求解。首先,采用自然数编码,使问题变得更简洁;用最佳保留选择法,以保证群体的多样性;引入爬山算法,加强局部搜索能力;其次,对遗传算法求得的精英种群再进行禁忌搜索,保证算法能够收敛到全局最优。最后,通过实例的计算,表明本算法均优于遗传算法和禁忌搜索算法,并为大规模解决实际问题提供思路。     

改进差分进化算法求解装载率凹费用装箱问题

研究了广泛存在于物流作业中一类新型的装箱问题,主要特征体现在箱子使用费用是关于装载率的凹函数。为求解问题,提出了一种基于分组编码策略的改进差分进化算法,以避免常规实数和整数编码方法存在放大搜索空间的不足。针对分组编码策略,定制化设计了以促进优秀基因传播为导向的新型变异和交叉操作,另外还嵌入了以物品置换为邻域的自适应局部搜索操作以增强局部搜索能力。对以往文献给出算例在不同凹费用函数下进行测试,实验结果显示所提出的算法明显优于BFD启发式算法,并且较遗传算法也有显著性改进。     

基于模矢搜索和遗传算法的混合约束优化算法

近年,免梯度方法又开始引起大家的注意，由于不需要计算函数的梯度．特别适合用来求解那些无法得到梯度信息或需要花很大计算量才能得到梯度信息的问题．本文构造了一个基于模矢搜索和遗传算法的混合优化算法．在模矢搜索方法的搜索步，用一个类似于遗传算法的方法产生一个有限点集．算法是全局收敛的.     

蚁群遗传混合算法

将蚁群遗传混合算法分别求解离散空间的和连续空间优化问题.求解旅行商问题的混合算法是以遗传算法为整个算法的框架,利用了蚁群算法中的信息素特性的进行交叉操作;根据旅行商问题的特点,给出了4种变异策略;针对遗传算法存在的过早收敛问题,加入2-0pt方法对问题求解进行了局部优化.与模拟退火算法、标准遗传算法和标准蚁群算法进行比较,4种混合算法效果都比较好,策略D的混合算法效果最好.求解连续空间优化问题是以蚁群算法为整个算法的框架,加入遗传算法的交叉操作和变异操作,用测试函数验证了混合蚁群算法的正确性.     

作业车间调度问题的改进混合遗传算法

作业车间调度是一类求解困难的组合优化问题,本文在考虑遗传算法早熟收敛问题和禁忌搜索法自适应优点的基础上,将遗传算法和禁忌搜索法相结合,提出了一种基于遗传和禁忌搜索的混合算法,并用实例对该算法进行了仿真研究.结果表明,该算法有很好的收敛精度,是可行的,与传统的算法相比较,有明显的优越性.     

分层混合局部搜索策略异构多核系统调度

针对遗传算法解决异构多核系统的任务调度问题容易产生早熟现象及其局部寻优能力较差的缺点,将局部搜索算法与遗传算法相结合,创新性地提出一种求解异构多核系统的任务调度问题的分层混合局部搜索遗传算法。该算法提出一种新的分层优化策略以产生初始种群,在变异操作中,对部分个体设计3-opt优化变异,对种群中的优秀个体用改进的Lin-Kernighan算法进行优化。仿真实验结果表明,分层混合局部搜索遗传算法求解异构多核系统的任务调度问题时可以高效获得高质量的解。     

用遗传算法求解分组旅行推销员问题

在遗传算法能够有效解决TSP问题的基础上，根据遗传算法——通过搜索大规模，多样化的种群，在种群间交换个体所携带的遗传信息，保留种群中个体的优越遗传信息——的思想，设计了求解分组TSP问题的遗传算法。算法中染色体表示、评价函数的构造、杂交变异算子的设计经过实例计算的检验被证明较为可靠；算法运算速度快，容易获得有效解。     

多目标规划的一种混合遗传算法

本文利用遗传算法的全局搜索内能力及直接搜索算法的局部优化能力，提出了一种用于多目标规划的混合遗传算法．与Pareto遗传算法相比．本文提出的算法能提高多目标遗传算法优化搜索效率，并保证了能得到适舍决策者要求的Pareto最优解．最后，理论与实践证明其有有效性．     

遗传信赖域方法

本文将具有并行计算性能的遗传算法与具有全局收敛的信赖域方法相结合以形成混合搜索方法,为解决复杂多峰极值优化问题提供一种有效算法,证明了算法的收敛性。     

A dynamic genetic algorithm based on continuous neural networks for a kind of non-convex optimization problems

This paper presents a kind of dynamic genetic algorithm based on a continuous neural network, which is intrinsically the steepest decent method for constrained optimization problems. The proposed algorithm combines the local searching ability of the steepest decent methods with the global searching ability of genetic algorithms. Genetic algorithms are used to decide each initial point of the steepest decent methods so that all the initial points can be searched intelligently. The steepest decent methods are employed to decide the fitness of genetic algorithms so that some good initial points can be selected. The proposed algorithm is motivated theoretically and biologically. It can be used to solve a non-convex optimization problem which is quadratic and even more non-linear. Compared with standard genetic algorithms, it can improve the precision of the solution while decreasing the searching scale. In contrast to the ordinary steepest decent method, it can obtain global sub-optimal solution while lessening the complexity of calculation.     

A genetic algorithm for robust schedules in a one-machine environment with ready times and due dates

Computing a schedule for a single machine problem is often difficult, but when the data are uncertain, the problem is much more complicated. In this paper, we modify a genetic algorithm to compute robust schedules when release dates are subject to small variations. Two types of robustness are distinguished: quality robustness or robustness in the objective function space and solution robustness or robustness in the solution space. We show that the modified genetic algorithm can find solutions that are robust with respect to both types of robustness. Moreover, the risk associated with a specific solution can be easily evaluated. The modified genetic algorithm is applied to a just-in-time scheduling problem, a common problem in many industries.     

Availability allocation and multi-objective optimization for parallel–series systems

Availability allocation is required when the manufacturer is obliged to allocate proper availability to various components in order to design an end product to meet specified requirements. This paper proposes a new multi-objective genetic algorithm, namely simulated annealing based multi-objective genetic algorithm (saMOGA), to resolve the availability allocation and optimization problems of a repairable system, specifically a parallel–series system. Compared with a general multi-objective genetic algorithm, the major feature of the saMOGA is that it can accept a poor solution with a small probability in order to enlarge the searching space and avoid the local optimum. The saMOGA aims to determine the optimal decision variables, i.e. failure rates, repair rates, and the number of components in each subsystem, according to multiple objectives, such as system availability, system cost and system net profit. The proposed saMOGA is compared with three other multi-objective genetic algorithms. Computational results showed that the proposed approach could provide higher solution quality and greater computing efficiency.     

A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm with Boltzmann Convergence Properties

Stochastic global search algorithms such as genetic algorithms are used to attack difficult combinatorial optimization problems. However, genetic algorithms suffer from the lack of a convergence proof. This means that it is difficult to establish reliable algorithm braking criteria without extensive a priori knowledge of the solution space. The hybrid genetic algorithm presented here combines a genetic algorithm with simulated annealing in order to overcome the algorithm convergence problem. The genetic algorithm runs inside the simulated annealing algorithm and provides convergence via a Boltzmann cooling process. The hybrid algorithm was used successfully to solve a classical 30-city traveling salesman problem; it consistently outperformed both a conventional genetic algorithm and a conventional simulated annealing algorithm. This work was supported by the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.     

Minimising the number of gap-zeros in binary matrices

We study a problem of minimising the total number of zeros in the gaps between blocks of consecutive ones in the columns of a binary matrix by permuting its rows. The problem is referred to as the Consecutive Ones Matrix Augmentation Problem, and is known to be NP-hard. An analysis of the structure of an optimal solution allows us to focus on a restricted solution space, and to use an implicit representation for searching the space. We develop an exact solution algorithm, which is linear-time in the number of rows if the number of columns is constant, and two constructive heuristics to tackle instances with an arbitrary number of columns. The heuristics use a novel solution representation based upon row sequencing. In our computational study, all heuristic solutions are either optimal or close to an optimum. One of the heuristics is particularly effective, especially for problems with a large number of rows.     

Tree template matching in unranked ordered trees

We consider the problem of tree template matching, a type of tree pattern matching, where the tree templates have some of their leaves denoted as “donʼt care”, and propose a solution based on the bottom-up technique. Specifically, we transform the tree pattern matching problem for unranked ordered trees to a string matching problem, by transforming the tree template and the subject tree to strings representing their postfix bar notation, and then propose a table-driven algorithm to solve it. The proposed algorithm is divided into two phases: the preprocessing and the searching phase. The tree template is preprocessed once, and the searching phase can be applied to many subject trees, without the need of preprocessing the tree template again. Although we prove that the space required for preprocessing is exponential in the size of the tree template in the worst case, we show that for a specific class of tree templates, the space required is linear in the size of the tree template. The time for the searching phase is linear in the size of the subject tree in the worst case. Thus, the algorithm is asymptotically optimal when one needs to search for a given tree template, of constant to logarithmic size, in many subject trees.     

Reducing quadratic programming problem to regression problem: Stepwise algorithm

Quadratic programming is concerned with minimizing a convex quadratic function subject to linear inequality constraints. The variables are assumed to be nonnegative. The unique solution of quadratic programming (QP) problem (QPP) exists provided that a feasible region is non-empty (the QP has a feasible space).A method for searching for the solution to a QP is provided on the basis of statistical theory. It is shown that QPP can be reduced to an appropriately formulated least squares (LS) problem (LSP) with equality constraints and nonnegative variables. This approach allows us to obtain a simple algorithm to solve QPP. The applicability of the suggested method is illustrated with numerical examples.     

Genetic algorithms applied to the solution of hybrid optimal control problems in astrodynamics

Many space mission planning problems may be formulated as hybrid optimal control problems, i.e. problems that include both continuous-valued variables and categorical (binary) variables. There may be thousands to millions of possible solutions; a current practice is to pre-prune the categorical state space to limit the number of possible missions to a number that may be evaluated via total enumeration. Of course this risks pruning away the optimal solution. The method developed here avoids the need for pre-pruning by incorporating a new solution approach using nested genetic algorithms; an outer-loop genetic algorithm that optimizes the categorical variable sequence and an inner-loop genetic algorithm that can use either a shape-based approximation or a Lambert problem solver to quickly locate near-optimal solutions and return the cost to the outer-loop genetic algorithm. This solution technique is tested on three asteroid tour missions of increasing complexity and is shown to yield near-optimal, and possibly optimal, missions in many fewer evaluations than total enumeration would require.     

Textile porosity determination based on a nonlinear heat and moisture transfer model

The inverse problems of textile materials design on heat and moisture transfer properties are important and indispensable in applications in the body-clothing-environment system. We present an inverse problem of textile porosity determination (IPTPD) based on a nonlinear heat and moisture transfer model. Adopting the idea of the least-squares, the mathematical formulation of IPTPD is deduced to a regularized optimization problem with collocation method applied. The continuity of the regularized minimization problem is proved. By means of genetic algorithm (GA), the approximate solution of the IPTPD is numerically obtained. To reduce the computational cost, an improved algorithm based on BP neural network with GA is proposed in the numerical simulation. Compared with the direct GA searching, the computational cost is greatly reduced, which presents a similar result.