Abstract:We propose an interactive genetic algorithm (IGA) that evaluates individuals from among many people. This technique is effective for consensus building and in bringing together many opinions for applications such as enabling multiple people to design clothes together. With an IGA in which multiple people participate, a simple and easy evaluation interface is required. Our interface technique determines the solution group of the IGA using the tournament type evaluation. In this technique, two solution candidates are presented to evaluators who votes for the best solution candidate. Several evaluators judge the solution candidate's superiority or inferiority, thus deciding the relative rank of the two solutions. Evaluation points for all solution candidates are assigned depending on the relative value of the rank of the two solutions, which is based in turn on the results of the tournament competition. The solution obtained reflects the opinion of all evaluators accurately. In this study, the effectiveness of the proposed technique is verified using a simulation that employs multiple numerical evaluation agents instead of human evaluators. For each tournament competition, the results saturate when 60% of all evaluation agents participate in a vote; that is, the result is unaffected even if more evaluation agents participate. This means that the evaluator load can be reduced by 40%. Moreover, we compare the proposed technique with a general voting method that uses several evaluators voting for the first good individual from among all solution candidates in a displayed list. We confirm that the proposed technique is more effective than the general voting method, because many participants are satisfied.