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Pawwa
Pawwa

Reputation: 43

How do i represent the chromosome using Genetic Algorithm?

My task is to calculate clashes between alert time schedule and the user calendar schedule to generate the clashes less alert time schedule. How should i represent the chromosome according to this problem? How should i represent the time slots? (Binary or Number)

Thank You (Please Consider i'm a beginner to the genetic algorithm studies)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 142

Answers (1)

mrk
mrk

Reputation: 10406

Questions would be: What have you tried so far? How good are your results so far? Also your Problem is stated quite unspecific. Thus here is what I can give:

  1. The Chromosome should probably be the starttime of the alerts in your schedule (if I understood your Problem correctly).
  2. As important is to think of the ways you want to evaluate and calculate the Fitness of your individuals (here clashes (e.g. amount or time overlap between appointments), but it is obvious that you might find better heuristics to receive better solutions / faster convergence)
  3. Binary or continuous number might both work: I am usually going for numbers whenever there is no strong reason to not do so (since it is easier to Interpret, debug, etc.). Binary comes with some nice opportunities with respect to Mutation and Recombination.

I strongly recommend playing around and reading about those Things. This might look like a lot of extra work to implement, but you should rather come to see them as hyperparameters which Need to be tuned in order to receive the best Outcome.

Upvotes: 2

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