International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vol 9, No 5: October 2019

The saturation of population fitness as a stopping criterion in genetic algorithm

Foo Fong Yeng (Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Johor)
Soo Kum Yoke (Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Negeri Sembilan)
Azrina Suhaimi (Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Johor)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Oct 2019

Abstract

Genetic Algorithm is an algorithm imitating the natural evolution process in solving optimization problems. All feasible (candidate) solutions would be encoded into chromosomes and undergo the execution of genetic operators in evolution. The evolution itself is a process searching for optimum solution. The searching would stop when a stopping criterion is met. Then, the fittest chromosome of last generation is declared as the optimum solution. However, this optimum solution might be a local optimum or a global optimum solution. Hence, an appropriate stopping criterion is important such that the search is not ended before a global optimum solution is found. In this paper, saturation of population fitness is proposed as a stopping criterion for ending the search. The proposed stopping criteria was compared with conventional stopping criterion, fittest chromosomes repetition, under various parameters setting. The results show that the performance of proposed stopping criterion is superior as compared to the conventional stopping criterion.

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Journal Info

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IJECE

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Subject

Computer Science & IT Electrical & Electronics Engineering

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International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE, ISSN: 2088-8708, a SCOPUS indexed Journal, SNIP: 1.001; SJR: 0.296; CiteScore: 0.99; SJR & CiteScore Q2 on both of the Electrical & Electronics Engineering, and Computer Science) is the official publication of the Institute of ...