• DocumentCode
    2465152
  • Title

    The Role of Representation on the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem by means of Fitness Landscape Analysis

  • Author

    Tavares, Jorge ; Pereira, Francisco B. ; Costa, Ernesto

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Coimbra, Coimbra
  • fYear
    0
  • fDate
    0-0 0
  • Firstpage
    2307
  • Lastpage
    2314
  • Abstract
    Five encodings for the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem are investigated, using fitness landscape analysis techniques, in order to better understand the influence of genetic representations when solving a combinatorial optimization problem. Fitness distance correlation and autocorrelation measures are employed to analyze the encodings. The effect of heuristics, as well as repair and local optimization is also examined. The investigation helps to understand how the adopted representations influence the search performance of an evolutionary algorithm.
  • Keywords
    combinatorial mathematics; evolutionary computation; knapsack problems; combinatorial optimization problem; evolutionary algorithm; fitness distance correlation; fitness landscape analysis; multidimensional knapsack problem; Autocorrelation; Encoding; Evolutionary computation; Financial management; Genetics; Informatics; Multidimensional systems;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Evolutionary Computation, 2006. CEC 2006. IEEE Congress on
  • Conference_Location
    Vancouver, BC
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9487-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CEC.2006.1688593
  • Filename
    1688593