Local Genetic Algorithms are search procedures designed in order to provide an effective local search. Several Genetic Algorithm models have recently been presented with this aim. In this paper we present a new Binary-coded Local Genetic Algorithm based on a Steady-State Genetic Algorithm with a crowding replacement method. We have compared a Multi-Start Local Search based on the Binary-Coded L...

Genetic algorithm is a useful tool to tackle optimization problems. In this paper the complex numbers were introduced into the traditional genetic algorithm, in which binary or real value data representation was used in the past, and a complex-value encoding genetic algorithm was proposed. Comparing with the conventional genetic algorithm which based on real-valued encoding or binary encoding, ...

We present new links between some remarkable martingales found in the study of the Binary Search Tree or of the bisection problem, looking at them on the probability space of a continuous time binary branching process.

arguably, the natural gas transmission pipeline infrastructure in iran represents one of the largest andmost complex mechanical systems in the world. the optimization of large gas trunk lines known asigat results in reduced fuel consumption or higher capability and improves pipeline operation. in thecurrent study, a single-objective optimization was conducted for khormoj compressor station on t...

transmission network expansion planning (tnep) is an important component of power system planning. itdetermines the characteristics and performance of the future electric power network and influences the powersystem operation directly. different methods have been proposed for the solution of the static transmissionnetwork expansion planning (stnep) problem till now. but in all of them, stnep pr...

In this paper we shall give a mathematical description of a general evolutionary heuristic search algorithm which allows to see a very special property which slightly generalized binary genetic algorithms have comparing to other evolutionary computation techniques. It turns out that such a generalized genetic algorithm, which we call a binary semi-genetic algorithm, is capable of encoding virtu...

binary decision diagram (bdd) is a data structure proved to be compact in representation and efficient in manipulation of boolean formulas. using binary decision diagram in network reliability analysis has already been investigated by some researchers. in this paper we show how an exact algorithm for network reliability can be improved and implemented efficiently by using cudd - colorado univer...