THE FITNESS SHARING GENETIC ALGORITHM WITH SELF-ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF PEAKS RADII
Yu Xin · 2002
It is necessary to provide the number of peaks or the radii of peaks in optimizing a multi modal problem for the existing fitness sharing genetic algorithms. However, these parameters are not available for some real world multi modal problems. A new method is proposed in this paper, which takes the radii of peaks as a part of optimization variables. The radii of peaks are coded, put in the chromosomes and optimized with the variables of the problem by fitness sharing genetic algorithm without a prior knowledge of the above parameters. The empirical results tested by several benchmark problems show that the self adaptive control method for the radii of peaks is very efficient in finding peaks of the problem.