Sara Sabba; Salim Chikhi

The Conception of the New Agent-Based Platform for Modeling and Implementation of Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms

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1. Department of Fundamental Computing and its Applications, Faculty of New Technologies of Information and Communication, MISC Laboratory, Constantine 2 University, Algeria

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2014.04.02

Received: 5 Jul. 2013 / Revised: 5 Oct. 2013 / Accepted: 11 Dec. 2013 / Published: 8 Mar. 2014

Index Terms

Evolutionary Algorithm, Combinatorial Problems, Agent-Based Software, Ontology, Parallelization Strategies, JADE Framework

Abstract

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are a range of problem-solving techniques based on mechanisms inspired by biological evolution. Nowadays, EAs have proven their ability and effectiveness to solve combinatorial problems. However, these methods require a considerable time of calculation. To overcome this problem, several parallelization strategies have been proposed in the literature. In this paper, we present a new parallel agent-based EC framework for solving numerical optimization problems in order to optimize computation time and solutions quality.

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Sara Sabba, Salim Chikhi, "The Conception of the New Agent-Based Platform for Modeling and Implementation of Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms", International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications(IJISA), vol.6, no.4, pp.11-25, 2014. DOI:10.5815/ijisa.2014.04.02

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