Mixing Theory of Retroviruses and Genetic Algorithm to Build a New Nature-Inspired Meta-Heuristic for Real-Parameter Function Optimization Problems

Authors: Renato Simões Moreira, Otávio Noura Teixeira, Roberto Célio Limão de Oliveira

 Polibits, 42, pp. 65-69, 2010.

Abstract: This paper describes the development of a new hybrid meta-heuristic of optimization based on a viral lifecycle, specifically the retroviruses (the nature’s swiftest evolvers), called Retroviral Iterative Genetic Algorithm (RIGA). This algorithm uses Genetics Algorithms (GA) structures with features of retroviral replication, providing a great genetic diversity, confirmed by better results achieved by RIGA comparing with GA applied to some Real-Valued Benchmarking Functions.

 Keywords:  Evolutionary computation; genetic algorithm; viruses; retroviruses; hybrid metaheuristic

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