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The most popular and successful way to maintain a healthy body is to have a rich and balanced diet combined with physical exercise. Since the diet dilemma was proposed, several works in the literature suggested calculating a diet that respects the nutritional needs of each person. In the Caloric-Restricted Diet Problem (CRDP), the goal is to find a reduced-calorie diet that meets these nutritional needs, enabling weight loss. This paper proposes an Island-Based Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm (IBHEA) that uses a Genetic Algorithm (GA) and a Differential Evolution (DE) Algorithm with different parameters settings in different islands communicating through several migration policies to solve the CRDP. Computational experiments showed that IBHEA outperformed more than 5% compared with non-distributed and non-hybrid implementations, generating a greater variety of diets with a small calorie count.

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The authors acknowledge the support of the Computational Modeling Graduate Program at Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) and the Brazilian funding agencies CNPq – Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (grant number 429639/2016), FAPEMIG - Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (grant number APQ-00334/18), and CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, finance code 001.

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    João Gabriel R. Silva & Leonardo Goliatt

  3. Civil Engineering Program, COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Grasiele Regina Duarte

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Xavier, C.R., Silva, J.G.R., Duarte, G.R. et al. An island-based hybrid evolutionary algorithm for caloric-restricted diets. Evol. Intel. 16, 553–564 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12065-021-00680-0

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