Applications of parallel genetic algorithms in ground water contamination problems: An overview

Groundwater resource management is a challenging problem faced by almost all the countries. Mathematical models of these problems often turn out to be illdefined subject to several variables and constraints. Sophisticated algorithms are needed in order to deal efficiently with such problems. In the past few decades much attention has been paid to heuristic techniques like genetic algorithms etc which can easily solve such problems. Further, in order to tackle the large number of involved parameters in these problems parallel version of GAs is more effective than the basic GAs. In this paper an attempt is made to review the application of PGA on groundwater management problems.