Testing of Hybrid Genetic Algorithms for Structured Quadratic Assignment Problems

In this paper, an efficient hybrid genetic algorithm (HGA) and its variants for the wellknown combinatorial optimization problem, the quadratic assignment problem (QAP) are discussed. In particular, we tested our algorithms on a special type of QAPs, the structured quadratic assignment problems. The results from the computational experiments on this class of problems demonstrate that HGAs allow to achieve near-optimal and (pseudo-)optimal solutions at very reasonable computation times. The obtained results also confirm that the hybrid genetic algorithms are among the most suitable heuristic approaches for this type of QAPs.