Title

Cluster Energy Optimizing Genetic Algorithm

Keywords

CEO-GA; Cluster energy optimization; Genetic algorithm; Global minimization; Gupta potential; Nanocluster

Abstract

Nanoclusters are small clumps of atoms of one or several materials. A cluster possesses a unique set of material properties depending on its configuration (i.e. the number of atoms, their types, and their exact relative positioning). Finding and subsequently testing these configurations is of great interest to physicists in search of new advantageous material properties. To facilitate the discovery of ideal cluster configurations, we propose the Cluster Energy Optimizing GA (CEO-GA), which combines the strengths of Johnston's BCGA [18], Pereira's H-C&S crossover [25], and two new mutation operators: Local Spherical and Center of Mass Spherical. The advantage of CEO-GA is its ability to evolve optimally stable clusters (those with lowest potential energy) without relying on local optimization methods, as do other commonly used cluster evolving GAs, such as BCGA. Copyright © 2013 ACM.

Publication Date

9-2-2013

Publication Title

GECCO 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Number of Pages

1317-1324

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/2463372.2463536

Socpus ID

84883080086 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84883080086

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