Cooperative coevolutionary genetic algorithms to find optimal elimination orderings for Bayesian networks

Abstract

According to the characteristics of the optimal elimination ordering problem in Bayesian networks, a heuristic-based genetic algorithm, a cooperative coevolutionary genetic framework and five grouping schemes are proposed. Based on these works, six cooperative coevolutionary genetic algorithms are constructed. Numerical experiments show that these algorithms are more robust than other existing swarm intelligence methods when solving the elimination ordering problem.