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GA Based on the UV-Structure Hypothesis and Its Application to JSP

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Genetic Algorithms(GAs) are effective approximation algorithms which focus on “hopeful area” in searching process. However, in harder problems, it is often very difficult to maintain a favorable trade-off between exploitation and exploration. All individuals leave the big-valley including the global optimum, and concentrate on another big-valley including a local optimum often. In this paper, we define such a situation on conventional GAs as the “UV-phenomenon”, and suggest UV-structures as hard landscape structures that will cause the UV-phenomenon. We propose Innately Split Model(ISM) as a new GA model which can avoid the UV-phenomenon. We apply ISM to Job-shop Scheduling Problem (JSP), which is considered as one of globally multi-modal and UV-structural problems. It is shown that ISM surpasses all famous approximation algorithms applied to JSP.

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Ikeda, K., Kobayashi, S. (2000). GA Based on the UV-Structure Hypothesis and Its Application to JSP. In: Schoenauer, M., et al. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature PPSN VI. PPSN 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1917. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45356-3_27

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