Mohammd A. Mezher

Work place: Computer Science Department, Fahad Bin Sultan University, Tabuk, KSA

E-mail: mmezhr@fbsu.edu.sa

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Research Interests: Theoretical Computer Science, Applied computer science, Computer Science & Information Technology

Biography

Mohammad A. Mezher is assistant professor and chair of the department of computer science at Fahad Bin Sultan University, where he has been since 2013. He received a BSc. From Alzaytoonah University in 2004, and MSc. From the Sains Malaysia University in 2006. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Brunel in 2011. Much of his work has been on improving the evolutionary algorithms, mainly Genetic Folding Algorithm. Where he has invented and introduced GF for the first time in 2010 at SAGAI, Cambridge, UK.

Author Articles
A Novel Genetic Operator for Genetic Folding Algorithm: A Refolding Operator and a New Genotype

By Mohammd A. Mezher Maysam F. Abbod

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijem.2017.06.01, Pub. Date: 8 Nov. 2017

Genetic Folding algorithm uses linear chromosomes composed of organized genes in floating-numbers manner, in which each genes chain fold back on themselves to form the final GF chromosome. In this paper, a novel genotype representation and a novel genetic operator were proposed. The paper was applied using MATLAB code to illustrate the beneficiary, flexibility and powerful of the Genetic Folding algorithm solving Santa Fe Trail problem. The problem of programming an artificial ant to follow the Santa Fe Trail is used as an example of program search space. 
To evaluate the efficiency and feasibility of the proposed methods, a comparison was held between the various types and sizes through the Santa Fe Trail problem. Several test functions along with various levels of difficulty were also conducted. Results of this proposal clearly show significant results of the proposed genotype and the genetic operator also. 

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