Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vol 16, No 2: November 2019

Heuristic based model for groceries shopping navigator

Muhammad Wardi bin Peeyee (Universiti Teknologi MARA)
Shuzlina Abdul-Rahman (Universiti Teknologi MARA)
Nurzeatul Hamimah Abdul Hamid (Universiti Teknologi MARA)
Mohd Zaki Zakaria (Universiti Teknologi MARA)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Nov 2019

Abstract

This paper presents a heuristic based model for groceries shopping navigator that attempts to improve the navigation problem that usually face by customers while doing their shopping. A system known as Shopping Navigator or shortly SHoNa was developed to give the optimal sequence of shelves to be visited by the customer and the total estimated shopping time so that the user can plan their shopping task earlier. Genetic algorithm was employed and implemented in a web-based platform that is compatible with other devices such as smartphones and tablets. SHoNA can minimize the shopping time by identifying the most optimal order of shelves inside the supermarket that needs to be visited by the customer. A series of experimental was performed in producing the optimum model. Our findings showed that the combination of order one crossover and inverse mutation produced a better optimal performance, which is the minimum total amount of groceries shopping time.  SHoNA can be further enhanced with visualization features for a better shopping experience.

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