GA {metaheuristicOpt}R Documentation

Optimization using Genetic Algorithm

Description

This is the internal function that implements Genetic Algorithm. It is used to solve continuous optimization tasks. Users do not need to call it directly, but just use metaOpt.

Usage

GA(FUN, optimType = "MIN", numVar, numPopulation = 40, maxIter = 500,
  rangeVar, Pm = 0.1, Pc = 0.8)

Arguments

FUN

an objective function or cost function,

optimType

a string value that represent the type of optimization. There are two option for this arguments: "MIN" and "MAX". The default value is "MIN", which the function will do minimization. Otherwise, you can use "MAX" for maximization problem. The default value is "MIN".

numVar

a positive integer to determine the number variables.

numPopulation

a positive integer to determine the number populations. The default value is 40.

maxIter

a positive integer to determine the maximum number of iterations. The default value is 500.

rangeVar

a matrix (2 \times n) containing the range of variables, where n is the number of variables, and first and second rows are the lower bound (minimum) and upper bound (maximum) values, respectively. If all variable have equal upper bound, you can define rangeVar as matrix (2 \times 1).

Pm

a positive integer to determine mutation probability. The default value is 0.1.

Pc

a positive integer to determine crossover probability. The default value is 0.8.

Details

Genetic algorithms (GA) were invented by John Holland in the 1960 and were developed by Holland and his students and colleagues at the University of Michigan in the 1960 and the 1970. GA are commonly used to generate high-quality solutions to optimization and search problems by relying on bio-inspired operators such as mutation, crossover and selection.

In order to find the optimal solution, the algorithm follow the following steps.

Value

Vector [v1, v2, ..., vn] where n is number variable and vn is value of n-th variable.

References

Holland, J. H. 1975. Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems. University of Michigan Press. (Second edition: MIT Press, 1992.)

Melanie Mitchell. 1998. An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA.

See Also

metaOpt

Examples

##################################
## Optimizing the sphere function

# define sphere function as objective function
sphere <- function(x){
    return(sum(x^2))
}

## Define parameter
Pm <- 0.1
Pc <- 0.8
numVar <- 5
rangeVar <- matrix(c(-10,10), nrow=2)

## calculate the optimum solution using Genetic Algorithm
resultGA <- GA(sphere, optimType="MIN", numVar, numPopulation=20,
                 maxIter=100, rangeVar, Pm, Pc)

## calculate the optimum value using sphere function
optimum.value <- sphere(resultGA)


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