An improved memetic algorithm for the antibandwidth problem

  • Authors:
  • Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello;Luis Carlos Betancourt

  • Affiliations:
  • Information Technology Laboratory, CINVESTAV-Tamaulipas, Victoria Tamps., Mexico;Information Technology Laboratory, CINVESTAV-Tamaulipas, Victoria Tamps., Mexico

  • Venue:
  • EA'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Artificial Evolution
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper presents an Improved Memetic Algorithm (IMA) designed to compute near-optimal solutions for the antibandwidth problem. It incorporates two distinguishing features: an efficient heuristic to generate a good quality initial population and a local search operator based on a Stochastic Hill Climbing algorithm. The most suitable combination of parameter values for IMA is determined by employing a tunning methodology based on Combinatorial Interaction Testing. The performance of the fine-tunned IMA algorithm is investigated through extensive experimentation over well known benchmarks and compared with an existing state-of-the-art Memetic Algorithm, showing that IMA consistently improves the previous best-known results.