Title
A Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm With Taboo And Competition Strategies For Minimum Vertex Cover Problem
Abstract
The Minimum Vertex Cover (MVC) problem is a prominent NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem, which is of great significance in both theory and application. Evolutionary algorithms and local search algorithms have proved to be two important methods to solve this problem. However, the combination of these two methods does not perform well. In order to acquire an effective hybrid evolutionary algorithm, two new control strategies are proposed, which are taboo of solution-distance and intensive competition of individuals. A hybrid evolutionary algorithm for the MVC problem, referred to HETC, is proposed in this paper using these two strategies. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is validated by conducting deep simulations. The results obtained by the proposed scheme are compared with results obtained by EWSL, the state-of-the-art algorithm, and NuMVC.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/978-3-030-36808-1_79
NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING (ICONIP 2019), PT IV
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Evolutionary algorithms, Estimation of Distribution Algorithms, Local search, Guiding strategy, Minimum Vertex Cover (MVC)
Conference
1142
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1865-0929
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gang Yang1329.38
Daopeng Wang200.34
Jieping Xu341.77