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The crossover operator plays an important role in a genetic algorithm, which produces two or more offspring for each pair of parents. With the help of the crossover operator, the genetic algorithm can explore the search space effectively. In this paper, we propose a new crossover operator called elliptical crossover operator, which can explore the search domain effectively. A local search scheme is...