Feasibility-preserving crossover for maximum k-coverage problem

  • Authors:
  • Yourim Yoon;Yong-Hyuk Kim;Byung-Ro Moon

  • Affiliations:
  • Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea;Kwangwoon University, Seoul, South Korea;Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The maximum k-coverage problem is a generalized version of covering problems. We introduce the problem formally and analyze its property in relation to the operators of genetic algorithm. Based on the analysis, we propose a new crossover tailored to the maximum k-coverage problem. While traditional n-point crossovers have a problem of requiring repair steps, the proposed crossover has an additional advantage of always producing feasible solutions. We give a comparative analysis of the proposed crossover through experiments.