The consecutive meals planning is a combinatorial optimization problem that determines the meals plan on one period consisting of consecutive days. This paper designs two evaluation functions for the planning and applies a permutation GA to optimize it. The evaluation function measures the variation of appearance order of meals or meal's characteristics on the plan. In the numerical experiments, we show that our meals plan has a large variation of appearance order of meal's characteristics.
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