Development of Web-Based Menu Planning Support System and its Solution Using Genetic Algorithm
Tomoko Kashima, Shimpei Matsumoto, Hiroaki Ishii, Sio-Iong Ao, Alan Hoi-Shou Chan, Hideki Katagiri, Li Xu · AIP conference proceedings · 2009
Recently lifestyle‐related diseases have become an object of public concern, while at the same time people are being more health conscious. As an essential factor for causing the lifestyle‐related diseases, we assume that the knowledge circulation on dietary habits is still insufficient. This paper focuses on everyday meals close to our life and proposes a well‐balanced menu planning system as a preventive measure of lifestyle‐related diseases. The system is developed by using a Web‐based frontend and it provides multi‐user services and menu information sharing capabilities like social networking services (SNS). The system is implemented on a Web server running Apache (HTTP server software), MySQL (database management system), and PHP (scripting language for dynamic Web pages). For the menu planning, a genetic algorithm is applied by understanding this problem as multidimensional 0–1 integer programming.