Application of genetic algorithms to construction scheduling with or without resource constraints

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Cengiz Toklu
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Genetic Algorithms ◽  
Construction Management ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Fitness Function ◽  
Computer Application ◽  
Mutation Operator ◽  
Construction Problem ◽  
Construction Scheduling

The difficulties encountered in scheduling construction projects with resource constraints are highlighted by means of a simplified bridge construction problem. A genetic algorithm applicable to projects with or without resource constraints is described. In this application, chromosomes are formed by genes consisting of the start days of the activities. This choice necessitated introducing two mathematical operators (datum operator and left compression operator) and emphasizing one genetic operator (fine mutation operator). A generalized evaluation of the fitness function is conducted. The algorithm is applied to the example problem. The results and the effects of some of the parameters are discussed.Key words: scheduling, genetic algorithms, construction management, computer application.

scholarly journals Application of Genetic Algorithm Elements to Modelling of Rotation Processes in Motion Transmission Including a Long Shaft

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Andriy Chaban ◽  
Marek Lis ◽  
Andrzej Szafraniec ◽  
Radoslaw Jedynak
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Genetic Algorithms ◽  
Fitness Function ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Distributed Parameter ◽  
Parameter Method ◽  
Analytical Mechanics ◽  
Parameter System ◽  
Rotational Systems ◽  
Elastic Elements

Genetic algorithms are used to parameter identification of the model of oscillatory processes in complicated motion transmission of electric drives containing long elastic shafts as systems of distributed mechanical parameters. Shaft equations are generated on the basis of a modified Hamilton–Ostrogradski principle, which serves as the foundation to analyse the lumped parameter system and distributed parameter system. They serve to compute basic functions of analytical mechanics of velocity continuum and rotational angles of shaft elements. It is demonstrated that the application of the distributed parameter method to multi-mass rotational systems, that contain long elastic elements and complicated control systems, is not always possible. The genetic algorithm is applied to determine the coefficients of approximation the system of Rotational Transmission with Elastic Shaft by equivalent differential equations. The fitness function is determined as least-square error. The obtained results confirm that application of the genetic algorithms allow one to replace the use of a complicated distributed parameter model of mechanical system by a considerably simpler model, and to eliminate sophisticated calculation procedures and identification of boundary conditions for wave motion equations of long elastic elements.

scholarly journals Strategic Team AI Path Plans: Probabilistic Pathfinding

2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tng C. H. John ◽  
Edmond C. Prakash ◽  
Narendra S. Chaudhari
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Genetic Algorithms ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
Fitness Function ◽  
New Method ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Plan Generation ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Games And Simulations

This paper proposes a novel method to generate strategic team AI pathfinding plans for computer games and simulations using probabilistic pathfinding. This method is inspired by genetic algorithms (Russell and Norvig, 2002), in that, a fitness function is used to test the quality of the path plans. The method generates high-quality path plans by eliminating the low-quality ones. The path plans are generated by probabilistic pathfinding, and the elimination is done by a fitness test of the path plans. This path plan generation method has the ability to generate variation or different high-quality paths, which is desired for games to increase replay values. This work is an extension of our earlier work on team AI: probabilistic pathfinding (John et al., 2006). We explore ways to combine probabilistic pathfinding and genetic algorithm to create a new method to generate strategic team AI pathfinding plans.

scholarly journals Application of the genetic algorithm to the task of compiling the curriculum

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. A. Turchina ◽  
D. O. Tanasienko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Genetic Algorithms ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Fitness Function ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Heuristic Methods ◽  
Educational Groups ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Negative Property

One of the main tasks in organizing the educational process in higher education is the drawing up of a schedule of classes. It reflects the weekly student and faculty load. At the same time, when compiling, there are a number of necessary conditions and a number of desirable. The paper considers seven required and four desirable conditions. In this paper, one of the well-known approaches that can be used in drawing up a curriculum is consid-ered. The proposed scheme of the genetic algorithm, the result of which is to obtain an approximate solution to the problem of scheduling with the need to further improve it by other heuristic methods. To solve the problem, an island model of the genetic algorithm was selected and its advantages were considered. In the paper, the author's own structure of the individual, which includes chromosomes in the form of educational groups and genes as a lesson at a certain time, is presented and justified. The author presents his own implementations of the genetic algorithms. During the work, many variants of operators were tested, but they were rejected due to their inefficiency. The biggest problem was to maintain the consistency of information encoded in chromosomes. Also, two post-steps were added: to try to reduce the number of teacher conflict conflicts and to normalize the schedule - to remove windows from the schedule. The fitness function is calculated according to the following principles: if some desired or desired property is present in the individual, then a certain number is deducted from the individual's assessment, if there is a negative property, then a certain number is added to the assessment. Each criterion has its weight, so the size of the fine or rewards may be different. In this work, fines were charged for non-fulfillment of mandatory conditions, and rewards for fulfilling the desired

scholarly journals PENENTUAN PARAMETER LEARNING RATE SELAMA PEMBELAJARAN JARINGAN SYARAF TIRUAN BACKPROPAGATION MENGGUNAKAN ALGORITMA GENETIKA

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-212
Author(s):  
Ade chandra Saputra
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Genetic Algorithms ◽  
Fitness Function ◽  
Learning Rate ◽  
Local Minima ◽  
Rate Parameter ◽  
Neural Network Learning ◽  
Value Of Learning ◽  
Backpropagation Learning

One of the weakness in backpropagation Artificial neural network(ANN) is being stuck in local minima. Learning rate parameter is an important parameter in order to determine how fast the ANN Learning. This research is conducted to determine a method of finding the value of learning rate parameter using a genetic algorithm when neural network learning stops and the error value is not reached the stopping criteria or has not reached the convergence. Genetic algorithm is used to determine the value of learning rate used is based on the calculation of the fitness function with the input of the ANN weights, gradient error, and bias. The calculation of the fitness function will produce an error value of each learning rate which represents each candidate solutions or individual genetic algorithms. Each individual is determined by sum of squared error value. One with the smallest SSE is the best individual. The value of learning rate has chosen will be used to continue learning so that it can lower the value of the error or speed up the learning towards convergence. The final result of this study is to provide a new solution to resolve the problem in the backpropagation learning that often have problems in determining the learning parameters. These results indicate that the method of genetic algorithms can provide a solution for backpropagation learning in order to decrease the value of SSE when learning of ANN has been static in large error conditions, or stuck in local minima

Design of Highway Construction Mixing Materials Ratio Based on Genetic Algorithm

2013 ◽  
Vol 367 ◽  
pp. 308-311
Author(s):  
Li Ping Li ◽  
Guang Li Xu ◽  
Xiao Li Lu
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Fitness Function ◽  
Highway Construction ◽  
Computer Application ◽  
Ratio Method ◽  
Mixing Ratio ◽  
Ratio Calculation ◽  
Economic Program ◽  
Material Mixing ◽  
Design Construction

The manual work or Excel based material mixing ratio method has low computer application level and lays high computer capacity on design construction workers. It is difficult to obtain the most optimal technical and economic program from a number of optional programs. The paper built mathematical model of materials mixing ratio based on genetic and identified constraint conditions. Data pre-processing was performed according to the constructed model. According to specific circus of material mixing ratio calculation, the fitness function and various operators were designed and parameters of model were also configured. At the same time of meeting requirements of project quality, multiple target optimizations were considered to give new model and constraints. The highway construction mixing materials ratio calculation based on genetic algorithm achieves expected goal and improve accuracy and efficiency of operations.

Where Genetic Algorithms Excel

2001 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric B. Baum ◽  
Dan Boneh ◽  
Charles Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Genetic Algorithms ◽  
Selective Breeding ◽  
Population Distribution ◽  
Fitness Function ◽  
Mean Field ◽  
Search Problem ◽  
Parallel Search ◽  
Type Algorithm ◽  
Insight Into

We analyze the performance of a genetic algorithm (GA) we call Culling, and a variety of other algorithms, on a problem we refer to as the Additive Search Problem (ASP). We show that the problem of learning the Ising perceptron is reducible to a noisy version of ASP. Noisy ASP is the first problem we are aware of where a genetic-type algorithm bests all known competitors. We generalize ASP to k-ASP to study whether GAs will achieve “implicit parallelism” in a problem with many more schemata. GAs fail to achieve this implicit parallelism, but we describe an algorithm we call Explicitly Parallel Search that succeeds. We also compute the optimal culling point for selective breeding, which turns out to be independent of the fitness function or the population distribution. We also analyze a mean field theoretic algorithm performing similarly to Culling on many problems. These results provide insight into when and how GAs can beat competing methods.

QoS Routing Optimization Based on Improved Genetic Algorithm

2014 ◽  
Vol 998-999 ◽  
pp. 1169-1173
Author(s):  
Chang Lin He ◽  
Yu Fen Li ◽  
Lei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Genetic Algorithms ◽  
Computational Complexity ◽  
Fitness Function ◽  
Qos Routing ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Improved Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Coding Schemes ◽  
Routing Optimization

A improved genetic algorithm is proposed to QoS routing optimization. By improving coding schemes, fitness function designs, selection schemes, crossover schemes and variations, the proposed method can effectively reduce computational complexity and improve coding accuracy. Simulations are carried out to compare our algorithm with the traditional genetic algorithms. Experimental results show that our algorithm converges quickly and is reliable. Hence, our method vastly outperforms the traditional algorithms.

An optimization model for workgroup-based repetitive scheduling

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (9) ◽  
pp. 1172-1194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rong-yau Huang ◽  
Kuo-Shun Sun
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Optimization Model ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Planning And Scheduling ◽  
Construction Scheduling ◽  
Chromosome Representation ◽  
Scheduling Method ◽  
Model Formation ◽  
System Project

Most construction repetitive scheduling methods developed so far have been based on the premise that a repetitive project is comprised of many identical production units. Recently, Huang and Sun (2005) developed a workgroup-based repetitive scheduling method that takes the view that a repetitive construction project consists of repetitive activities of workgroups. Instead of repetitive production units, workgroups with repetitive or similar activities in a repetitive project are identified and employed in the planning and scheduling. The workgroup-based approach adds more flexibility to the planning and scheduling of repetitive construction projects and enhances the effectiveness of repetitive scheduling. This work builds on previous research and develops an optimization model for workgroup-based repetitive scheduling. A genetic algorithm (GA) is employed in model formation for finding the optimal or near-optimal solution. A chromosome representation, as well as specification of other parameters for GA analysis, is described in the paper. Two sample case studies, one simple and one sewer system project, are used for model validation and demonstration. Results and findings are reported.Key words: construction scheduling, repetitive project, workgroup, optimization, genetic algorithm.

A New Testability Optimization Allocation Approach

2013 ◽  
Vol 328 ◽  
pp. 444-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gang Liu ◽  
Fang Li
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Genetic Algorithms ◽  
Iterative Process ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Improved Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Numerical Example ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Optimization Allocation ◽  
Allocation Approach

This paper describes a methodology based on improved genetic algorithms (GA) and experiments plan to optimize the testability allocation. Test resources were reasonably configured for testability optimization allocation, in order to meet the testability allocation requirements and resource constraints. The optimal solution was not easy to solve of general genetic algorithm, and the initial parameter value was not easy to set up and other defects. So in order to more efficiently test and optimize the allocation, migration technology was introduced in the traditional genetic algorithm to optimize the iterative process, and initial parameters of algorithm could be adjusted by using AHP approach, consequently testability optimization allocation approach based on improved genetic algorithm was proposed. A numerical example is used to assess the method. and the examples show that this approach can quickly and efficiently to seek the optimal solution of testability optimization allocation problem.

scholarly journals Optimasi Pendistribusian Kelas Pada Dosen di STMIK STIKOM Indonesia Menggunakan Algoritma Genetika

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-154
Author(s):  
Aniek Suryanti Kusuma ◽  
Komang Sri Aryati
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Genetic Algorithms ◽  
Genetic Parameters ◽  
Fitness Function ◽  
Genetic Process ◽  
Fitness Value ◽  
Distribution Process ◽  
Class Scheduling ◽  
System Requirements

The stage of class scheduling starts from scheduling courses in classes, then distributing the class to lecturers. The process of distributing classes to lecturers becomes an obstacle for the STMIK STIKOM Indonesia academic body because the academic body must adjust the existing class with the lecturer who is interested in it as well as the lecturer chosen to support a class so that it does not have classes that have a time conflict. One method for solving these problems is by using genetic algorithms that work by generating a number of random solutions and then processing the collection of solutions in a genetic process. There are eight genetic algorithm procedures, which are random chromosome generation procedures, chromosome repair to validate chromosomes from their limits, fitness function to calculate the feasibility of a solution, crossover, mutation, child repair and elitism. The output of this research is in the form of an analysis and determination of the system requirements that must exist. In addition, it produces a trial report on the effect of genetic parameters to determine the effect of changes in the value of genetic parameters on the fitness value and the time used to carry out the distribution process.  

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