Research Article

A Hybrid Metaheuristic of Integrating Estimation of Distribution Algorithm with Tabu Search for the Max-Mean Dispersion Problem

Table 1

The CPP matrix construction procedure for a small instance .
(a) Step 0: Given the following problem instance


0-8.174.48-8.73-7.53

-8.1707.18-6.123.74

4.487.180-1.75-2.81

-8.73-6.12-1.7501.8

-7.533.74-2.811.80

(b) Step l: Produce three high quality solutions to form the elite set

ESf(x)

011003.59

101002.24

011012.70

12301

(c) Step 2: According to Eq. (4), Eq. (5), Eq. (6), calculate the objective preference , the selection probability and the preference probability


00.910.6000.46

0.330.67100.33

00.610.6000.15

(d) Step 3: According to Eq. (7), Eq. (8), calculate the interaction selection probability and the conditional preference probability which composes the CPP matrix


00.3300
00.6700.33
0.330.6700.33
0000
00.330.330


0000
00.4100.61
0.600.6000.60
0000
00.070.050