Computational Biology Journal

Research Article

Two-Stage Approach for Protein Superfamily Classification

Crowding distance( ).

Let fronts be denoted as .
Let objective functions be denoted as .
Let solutions in a front be denoted as .
denotes number of solutions in a front.
denotes the crowding distance w.r.t th objective function.
represents th solution in the sorted list w.r.t .
for every fornt do
for every objective function do
sort the solution in in descending order.
Assign
for to do
assign
end for
end for
end for
Total crowding distance of a solution
i.e sum of the crowding distances with respect to every objective.