Potential Mate or Partner Fitness Value

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2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-19
Author(s):  
Mahmood Sh. Majeed ◽  
Raid W. Daoud

A new method proposed in this paper to compute the fitness in Genetic Algorithms (GAs). In this new method the number of regions, which assigned for the population, divides the time. The fitness computation here differ from the previous methods, by compute it for each portion of the population as first pass, then the second pass begin to compute the fitness for population that lye in the portion which have bigger fitness value. The crossover and mutation and other GAs operator will do its work only for biggest fitness portion of the population. In this method, we can get a suitable and accurate group of proper solution for indexed profile of the photonic crystal fiber (PCF).


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saurin Bipin Parikh ◽  
Nelson Castilho Coelho ◽  
Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis

Abstract Microbial growth characteristics have long been used to investigate fundamental questions of biology. Colony-based high-throughput screens enable parallel fitness estimation of thousands of individual strains using colony growth as a proxy for fitness. However, fitness estimation is complicated by spatial biases affecting colony growth, including uneven nutrient distribution, agar surface irregularities, and batch effects. Analytical methods that have been developed to correct for these spatial biases rely on the following assumptions: (1) that fitness effects are normally distributed, and (2) that most genetic perturbations lead to minor changes in fitness. Although reasonable for many applications, these assumptions are not always warranted and can limit the ability to detect small fitness effects. Beneficial fitness effects, in particular, are notoriously difficult to detect under these assumptions. Here, we developed the linear interpolation-based detector (LI Detector) framework to enable sensitive colony-based screening without making prior assumptions about the underlying distribution of fitness effects. The LI Detector uses a grid of reference colonies to assign a relative fitness value to every colony on the plate. We show that the LI Detector is effective in correcting for spatial biases and equally sensitive toward increase and decrease in fitness. LI Detector offers a tunable system that allows the user to identify small fitness effects with unprecedented sensitivity and specificity. LI Detector can be utilized to develop and refine gene–gene and gene–environment interaction networks of colony-forming organisms, including yeast, by increasing the range of fitness effects that can be reliably detected.


2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salima Ouadfel ◽  
Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed

AbstractThresholding is the easiest method for image segmentation. Bi-level thresholding is used to create binary images, while multilevel thresholding determines multiple thresholds, which divide the pixels into multiple regions. Most of the bi-level thresholding methods are easily extendable to multilevel thresholding. However, the computational time will increase with the increase in the number of thresholds. To solve this problem, many researchers have used different bio-inspired metaheuristics to handle the multilevel thresholding problem. In this paper, optimal thresholds for multilevel thresholding in an image are selected by maximizing three criteria: Between-class variance, Kapur and Tsallis entropy using harmony search (HS) algorithm. The HS algorithm is an evolutionary algorithm inspired from the individual improvisation process of the musicians in order to get a better harmony in jazz music. The proposed algorithm has been tested on a standard set of images from the Berkeley Segmentation Dataset. The results are then compared with that of genetic algorithm (GA), particle swarm optimization (PSO), bacterial foraging optimization (BFO), and artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC). Results have been analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively using the fitness value and the two popular performance measures: SSIM and FSIM indices. Experimental results have validated the efficiency of the HS algorithm and its robustness against GA, PSO, and BFO algorithms. Comparison with the well-known metaheuristic ABC algorithm indicates the equal performance for all images when the number of thresholds M is equal to two, three, four, and five. Furthermore, ABC has shown to be the most stable when the dimension of the problem is too high.


1989 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 1434-1438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn M. Brodsky ◽  
C. Davison Ankney ◽  
Darrell G. Dennis

The influence of social experience on the preferences for a potential mate in a captive population of black ducks, Anas rubripes, and mallards, Anas platyrhynchos, was examined. Birds were reared from hatching with conspecifics (i.e., female black ducks with male black ducks, female mallards with male mallards), or were cross-fostered with the other species (i.e., female black ducks with male mallards, female mallards with male black ducks). Preferences of individuals were tested in a chamber containing caged black ducks and mallards of the opposite sex. In over 90% (100/109) of the trials, males and females preferred the species that they were raised with since hatching, whether they were of the same species or not. These results demonstrate that social experience influences the social preferences of male and female black ducks and mallards.


2013 ◽  
Vol 732-733 ◽  
pp. 1023-1028
Author(s):  
Si Qing Sheng ◽  
Xing Li ◽  
Yang Lu

In this paper a distribution network reactive power planning mathematical model was established, taking the minimized sum of electrical energy loss at the different load operation modes and the investment for reactive power compensation equipments as objective function to solve the planning question respectively and taking the transformer tap as equality constraint. The evolution strategy is improved, The Euclidean distance is introduced into the formation of the initial population, and the initial population under the max load operation mode is based on the optimal solution of the min load condition. The Cauchy mutation and variation coefficient are introduced into the evolution strategy method. By means of improvement of fitness to ensure diversity of population in early and accuracy of the fitness value.


Author(s):  
Sourav Kundu ◽  
Kentaro Kamagata ◽  
Shigeru Sugino ◽  
Takeshi Minowa ◽  
Kazuto Seto

Abstract A Genetic Algorithm (GA) based approach for solution of optimal control design of flexible structures is presented in this paper. The method for modeling flexible structures with distributed parameters as reduced-order models with lumped parameters, which has been developed previously, is employed. Due to some restrictions on controller design it is necessary to make a reduced-order model of the structure. Once the model is established the design of flexible structures is considered as a feedback search procedure where a new solution is assigned some fitness value for the GA and the algorithm iterates till some satisfactory design solution is achieved. We propose a pole assignment method to determine the evaluation (fitness) function to be used by the GA to find optimal damping ratios in passive elements. This paper demonstrates the first results of a genetic algorithm approach to solution of the vibration control problem for practical control applications to flexible tower-like structures.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Shehab ◽  
Laith Abualigah

Abstract Multi-Verse Optimizer (MVO) algorithm is one of the recent metaheuristic algorithms used to solve various problems in different fields. However, MVO suffers from a lack of diversity which may trapping of local minima, and premature convergence. This paper introduces two steps of improving the basic MVO algorithm. The first step using Opposition-based learning (OBL) in MVO, called OMVO. The OBL aids to speed up the searching and improving the learning technique for selecting a better generation of candidate solutions of basic MVO. The second stage, called OMVOD, combines the disturbance operator (DO) and OMVO to improve the consistency of the chosen solution by providing a chance to solve the given problem with a high fitness value and increase diversity. To test the performance of the proposed models, fifteen CEC 2015 benchmark functions problems, thirty CEC 2017 benchmark functions problems, and seven CEC 2011 real-world problems were used in both phases of the enhancement. The second step, known as OMVOD, incorporates the disruption operator (DO) and OMVO to improve the accuracy of the chosen solution by giving a chance to solve the given problem with a high fitness value while also increasing variety. Fifteen CEC 2015 benchmark functions problems, thirty CEC 2017 benchmark functions problems and seven CEC 2011 real-world problems were used in both phases of the upgrade to assess the accuracy of the proposed models.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.33) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Atiqa Zukreena Zakuan ◽  
Shuzlina Abdul-Rahman ◽  
Hamidah Jantan ◽  
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Succession planning is a subset of talent management that deals with multi-criteria and uncertainties which are quite complicated, ambiguous, fuzzy and troublesome. Besides that, the successor selection involves the process of searching the best candidate for a successor for an optimal selection decision. In an academic scenario, the quality of academic staff contributes to achieving goals and improving the performance of the university at the international level. The process of selecting appropriate academic staff requires good criteria in decision-making. The best candidate's position and criteria for the selection of academic staff is the responsibility of the Human Resource Management (HRM) to select the most suitable candidate for the required position. The various criteria that are involved in selecting academic staff includes research publication, teaching skills, personality, reputation and financial performance. Previously, most studies on multi-criteria decision-making adopt Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP). However, this method is more complex because it involved many steps and formula and may not produce the optimum results. Therefore, Genetic Algorithm (GA) is proposed in this research to address this problem in which a fitness function for the successor selection is based on the highest fitness value of each chromosome.    


Author(s):  
Qingzhu Wang ◽  
Xiaoyun Cui

As mobile devices become more and more powerful, applications generate a large number of computing tasks, and mobile devices themselves cannot meet the needs of users. This article proposes a computation offloading model in which execution units including mobile devices, edge server, and cloud server. Previous studies on joint optimization only considered tasks execution time and the energy consumption of mobile devices, and ignored the energy consumption of edge and cloud server. However, edge server and cloud server energy consumption have a significant impact on the final offloading decision. This paper comprehensively considers execution time and energy consumption of three execution units, and formulates task offloading decision as a single-objective optimization problem. Genetic algorithm with elitism preservation and random strategy is adopted to obtain optimal solution of the problem. At last, simulation experiments show that the proposed computation offloading model has lower fitness value compared with other computation offloading models.


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