Research Article

An Improved Hybrid Genetic Algorithm with a New Local Search Procedure

Figure 1

A contour plot of a 2-dimensional problem with the three directions indicated: Parent 1 direction is from to ; Parent 2 direction is from to ; the common direction is a horizontal dotted line, starting at towards the positive values on the axis. The three “stars" represent the three points stopped on the three paths with no further improvement.
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