We present a memetic approach designed to tackle the 2020 Computational Geometry Challenge on the Minimum Convex Partition problem. It is based on a simple local search algorithm hybridized with a genetic approach. The population is brought down to its smallest possible size - only 2 individuals - for a very simple implementation. This algorithm was applied to all the instances, without any specific parameterization or adaptation.
@InProceedings{moalic_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.84, author = {Moalic, Laurent and Schmitt, Dominique and Lepagnot, Julien and Kritter, Julien}, title = {{Computing Low-Cost Convex Partitions for Planar Point Sets Based on a Memetic Approach}}, booktitle = {36th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2020)}, pages = {84:1--84:9}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-143-6}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2020}, volume = {164}, editor = {Cabello, Sergio and Chen, Danny Z.}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.84}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-122423}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2020.84}, annote = {Keywords: metaheuristics, memetic algorithms, convex partition optimization} }
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