Collaborative evolutionary algorithms for combinatorial optimization

A new evolutionary algorithm for problems having potential solutions encoded as permutations is proposed. The introduced algorithm is based on the collaboration between individuals that exchange information in order to accelerate the search process. Numerical experiments prove the efficiency of the proposed technique.

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