Research Article

Linkage-Based Distance Metric in the Search Space of Genetic Algorithms

Table 1

Effect of gene rearrangement on FDCs computed using first- and second-order distance.

Graph FDC with FDC with Improvement from [21]

G500.2.5 0.369 0.033 3.495
G500.05 0.449 āˆ’0.002 āˆ’0.487
G500.10 0.221 0.005 2.674
G500.20 0.288 0.004 0.117

G1000.2.5 0.241 0.035 0.469
G1000.05 0.239 0.001 1.167
G1000.10 0.311 0.009 3.362
G1000.20 0.468 0.021 1.201

U500.05 0.297 0.438 82.258
U500.10 0.437 0.416 47.649
U500.20 0.593 0.267 65.198
U500.40 0.860 0.620 67.143

U1000.05 0.188 0.385 97.144
U1000.10 0.344 0.362 50.340
U1000.20 0.582 0.291 45.341
U1000.40 0.765 0.507 80.668

Change in GA performance obtained by gene rearrangement.