Stacked Auto Encoder Based Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Workforce Optimization
Ravikiran Chimatapu, Hani Hagras, Andrew Starkey, Gilbert Owusu · 2018
Work area optimization is a sub domain of Workforce optimization where the goal is the efficient utilization of resources (engineers) which leads to significant savings in operational costs and a corresponding increase in revenue. In this paper we present a Hybrid Genetic Algorithm where we will generate prior knowledge about the work area optimization problem using Deep Neural Network to provide good initial estimates to improve the performance of the Genetic Algorithm. The results show that the new approach provides faster convergence as well as more balanced WAs compared to a Conventional Genetic Algorithm.