mcga: Machine Coded Genetic Algorithms for Real-Valued Optimization Problems

Machine coded genetic algorithm (MCGA) is a fast tool for real-valued optimization problems. It uses the byte representation of variables rather than real-values. It performs the classical crossover operations (uniform) on these byte representations. Mutation operator is also similar to classical mutation operator, which is to say, it changes a randomly selected byte value of a chromosome by +1 or -1 with probability 1/2. In MCGAs there is no need for encoding-decoding process and the classical operators are directly applicable on real-values. It is fast and can handle a wide range of a search space with high precision. Using a 256-unary alphabet is the main disadvantage of this algorithm but a moderate size population is convenient for many problems. Package also includes multi_mcga function for multi objective optimization problems. This function sorts the chromosomes using their ranks calculated from the non-dominated sorting algorithm.

Package details

AuthorMehmet Hakan Satman
MaintainerMehmet Hakan Satman <mhsatman@istanbul.edu.tr>
LicenseGPL (>= 2)
Version3.0.7
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("mcga")

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mcga documentation built on Nov. 27, 2023, 5:12 p.m.