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Modified Genetic Operators for the TSP

  • Soak Sang Moon (Department of Mechatronics, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Yang Yeon Mo (Department of Mechatronics, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Lee Hong Girl (Department of Logistics Engineering, Korea Maritime University) ;
  • Ahn Byung Ha (Department of Mechatronics, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Published : 2005.03.01

Abstract

For a long time, genetic algorithms have been recognized as a new method to solve difficult and complex problems and the performance of genetic algorithms depends on genetic operators, especially crossover operator. Various problems like the traveling salesman problem, the transportation problem or the job shop problem, in logistics engineering can be modeled as a sequencing problem This paper proposes modified genetic crossover operators to be used at various sequencing problems and uses the traveling salesman problem to be applied to a real world problem like the delivery problem and the vehicle routing problem as a benchmark problem Because the proposed operators use parental information as well as network information, they could show better efficiency in performance and computation time than conventional operators.

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