Genetic Algorithm for optimization using MATLAB
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Abstract
As the applications of systems are increasing in various aspects of our daily life, it enhances the complexity of systems in
Software design (Program response according to environment) and hardware components (caches, branch predicting pipelines).Within
the past couple of years the Test Engineers have developed a new testing procedure for testing the correctness of systems: namely the
evolutionary test. The test is interpreted as a problem of optimization, and employs evolutionary computation to find the test data with
extreme execution times. Evolutionary testing denotes the use of evolutionary algorithms, e.g., Genetic Algorithms (GAs), to support
various test automation tasks. Since evolutionary algorithms are heuristics, their performance and output efficiency can vary across
multiple runs, there is strong need a environment that can be handle these complexities, Now a day’s MATLAB is widely used for this
purpose. This paper explore potential power of Genetic Algorithm for optimization by using new MATLAB based implementation of
Rastrigin’s function, throughout the paper we use this function as optimization problem to explain some key definitions of genetic
transformation like selection crossover and mutation.
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Keywords: Rastrigin’s function, Evolutionary Testing, Genetic Algorithm (GA) , MatLab & Fitness.
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