A Generalized National Planning Approach for Admission Capacity in Higher Education: A Nonlinear Integer Goal Programming Model with a Novel Differential Evolution Algorithm

Algorithm 1

Description of standard DE algorithm.

() Begin

()  

()  Create a random initial population ,

()  Evaluate

()  For   to GEN  Do

()    For   to NP  Do

()     Select randomly

() 

() For   to   Do

()     If  ( CR or  )  Then  

() 

()  Else

() 

()     End  If                            

()    End  For

()    Verify  Boundary  constraints  

()    If ())  Then

() 

()    Else    

() 

()    End  If

()  End  For

() 

()   End  For

()  End