Focusing on the Golden Ball Metaheuristic: An Extended Study on a Wider Set of Problems

Algorithm 1

Pseudocode of GA₁ and GA₂.

(1) Initialization of the population

(2) while  termination criterion not reached  do

(3)    Parents selection

(4)    Crossover phase

(5)    Mutation phase

(6)    Survivors selection

(7) end

(8) Return the best individual found