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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2018.22.7.943

Combining A* and Genetic Algorithm for Efficient Path Search  

Kim, Kwang Baek (Division of Computer Software Engineering, Silla University)
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a hybrid approach of combining $A^*$ and Genetic algorithm in the path search problem. In $A^*$, the cost from a start node to the intermediate node is optimized in principle but the path from that intermediate node to the goal node is generated and tested based on the cumulated cost and the next node in a priority queue is chosen to be tested. In that process, we adopt the genetic algorithm principle in that the group of nodes to generate the next node from an intermediate node is tested by its fitness function. Top two nodes are selected to use crossover or mutation operation to generate the next generation. If generated nodes are qualified, those nodes are inserted to the priority queue. The proposed method is compared with the original sequential selection and the random selection of the next searching path in $A^*$ algorithm and the result verifies the superiority of the proposed method.
Keywords
$A^*$; Genetic algorithm; Optimization; Path search; Fitness function;
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