A new fitness function for discovering a lot of satisfiable solutions in constraint satisfaction problems

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss how many satisfiable solutions a genetic algorithm can find in a problem instance of a constraint satisfaction problems in a single execution. Hence, we propose a framework for a new fitness function which can be applied to traditional fitness functions. However, the mechanism of the proposed fitness function is quite simple, and several experimental results on a variety of instances of general constraint satisfaction problems demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed fitness function.