@inbook {IOPORT.02040688, author = {Lim, Andrew and Rodrigues, Brian and Xiao, Fei}, title = {Integrated genetic algorithm with hill climbing for bandwidth minimization problem.}, year = {2003}, booktitle = {Genetic and evolutionary computation -- GECCO 2003. Genetic and evolutionary computation conference, Chicago, IL, USA, July 12--16, 2003. Proceedings, Part II}, isbn = {3-540-40603-4}, pages = {1594-1595}, publisher = {Berlin: Springer}, abstract = {Summary: In this paper, we propose an integrated Genetic Algorithm with Hill Climbing to solve the matrix bandwidth minimization problem, which is to reduce bandwidth by permuting rows and columns resulting in the nonzero elements residing in a band as close as possible to the diagonal. Experiments show that this approach achieves the best solution quality when compared with the GPS algorithm, Tabu Search, and the GRASP with Path Relinking methods, while being faster than the latter two newly-developed heuristics.}, identifier = {02040688}, }