A better, quicker alternative, he writes, is to employ an optimization algorithm that mimics a genetic process to find an optimal solution to a multivariable problem. He notes that other optimization ...

In this paper, the set covering problem (SCP) is considered. Several algorithms have been suggested in the literature for solving it. We propose a new algorithm for solving the SCP which is based on ...

The considered optimization problem is NP-hard, that is why we proposed a two-level based genetic algorithm in order to solve it. The computational results reported on a set of existing benchmark ...