Constraint handling in genetic algorithms using a gradient-based repair method

  • Authors:
  • Piya Chootinan;Anthony Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT;Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Operations Research
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Constraint handling is one of the major concerns when applying genetic algorithms (GAs) to solve constrained optimization problems. This paper proposes to use the gradient information derived from the constraint set to systematically repair infeasible solutions. The proposed repair procedure is embedded into a simple GA as a special operator. Experiments using 11 benchmark problems are presented and compared with the best known solutions reported in the literature. Our results are competitive, if not better, compared to the results reported using the homomorphous mapping method, the stochastic ranking method, and the self-adaptive fitness formulation method.