Fitness approximation for genetic algorithm using combination of approximation model and fuzzy clustering technique

A genetic algorithm can be applied to various search or optimization problems. However, there exists a problem that it takes too much cost to evaluate a large number of individuals. To deal with the problem, the fitness approximation method which reduces the cost of the evaluation with the similar performance to the general GA is needed. We proposed the fitness approximation using a combination of the approximation model and the fuzzy clustering technique. There exist two advantages of the proposed method. First, it reduces the cost of the fitness evaluation. Second, it shows the similar performance to the general GA. To verify the performance of the method, we designed the experiments using several benchmark functions and compared other fitness approximation methods.