Experimental design based multi-parent crossover operator

Recently, the methodologies of multi-parent crossover have been developed by performing the crossover operation with multi-parent. Some studies have indicated the high performance of multi-parent crossover on some numerical optimization problems. Here a new crossover operator has been proposed by integrating multi-parent crossover with the approach of experimental design. It is based on experimental design method in exploring the solution space that compensates the random search as in traditional genetic algorithm. By replacing the inbuilt randomness of crossover operator with a more systematical method, the proposed method outperforms the classical CA strategy on several CA benchmark problems.