A novel parameterized neutrosophic score function and its application in genetic algorithm

Abstract

Efficiency, safety and cost are three major evaluation indexes of warehouse operation. However, the uncertainty of efficiency, safety and cost factors will lead to economic losses and waste of resources. The purpose of this study is to propose a novel parameterized neutrosophic objective–proportionate genetic algorithm model (PNO–PGA) to optimize the above three objectives. There are three main contributions of this study. Firstly, a novel score function of neutrosophic sets (NSs) is proposed to effectively integrate the fuzziness of efficiency, safety and cost to avoid the evaluation result being too idealized. Secondly, a novel proportionate genetic algorithm is applied to adaptively realize the iteration and inheritance processes. Finally, two parameters are proposed to make the algorithm model flexibly adapt to different types of environments and problems. Then, an example is used to compare the new method with genetic algorithm (GA). The result shows that PNO-PGA has better problem-solving ability in warehouse operation than GA.