Research Article

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

Table 3

Parameter settings.

Control parameterActual values

Population size (NP)200
Maximum generations (GEN)2500
Crossover rate (CR)CR = 0.95 + (0.5–0.95) (/GEN)4
Local scaling factor )Uniform random number [0.4, 0.6]
Global scaling factor Uniform random number