A new adaptive penalty scheme for genetic algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Helio J. C. Barbosa;Afonso C. C. Lemonge

  • Affiliations:
  • LNCC/MCT, Rua Getúlio Vargas 333, 25651 070 Petrólis RJ, Brazil;Departamento de Estruturas, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Campus Universitário, Bairro Martelos, 36036 330 Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal - Special issue: Evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A parameter-less adaptive penalty scheme for genetic algorithms applied to constrained optimization problems is proposed. The performance of this new scheme is examined using test problems from the evolutionary computation literature as well as structural engineering constrained optimization problems.