Improved crossover and mutation operators for genetic- algorithm project scheduling

2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1865-1872

  Abido, M A ^a   Elazouni, A ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CROSSOVER AND MUTATION; CROSSOVER OPERATOR; EXACT SOLUTION; MUTATION OPERATORS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PROJECT SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING PROBLEM;

CHROMOSOMES; COST REDUCTION; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

EID: 70449922668     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2009.4983168     Document Type: Conference Paper

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