… a function of the genetic group of the missing ancestor. Thompson (10) suggested a similar
approach to genetic grouping in the accumulated groups model. Inclusion of groups in the …

… In this encoding, each gene depicts a group, and every gene holds a collection of items. …
collections of groups. Figure 3A shows the solution presented in Figure 2 using the group-based …

… have a group structure with identifiable characteristic features, that is, the need to form
efficient groups of entities according to guiding criteria, and the need to allocate those groups to …

… , the grouping-based approach has not been, to our knowledge, tested in this problem yet.
In this paper we fully describe the grouping genetic … We test the proposed grouping genetic …

… The genetic algorithm (GA) and a related procedure called the grouping genetic algorithm
(… specifically for problems involving the formation of groups. Falkenauer (JORBEL—Belg. J. …

… effects of ordering genetic operators on the structures relevant to the grouping problems. …
genetic operators is the other route that has been taken in the GAliterature treating grouping …

… effects of the classic genetic operators on the structures relevant to the grouping problems. …
) genetic oeprators is the first route that has been taken in the GA literature treating grouping …

… Grouping genetic algorithms (GGA) are a modification of traditional GAs designed specifically
for grouping problems [5]. In this paper, we develop a hybrid grouping genetic algorithm (…

… genetic operators on the structures relevant to the grouping problems. Application of a
straightforward encoding scheme together with standard genetic … treating grouping problems, for …

… technique of genetic algorithms and then show why the traditional genetic operators give
poor results for grouping problems. We then introduce a new crossover operator for grouping, …