Computational Intelligence

chapter

four

Evolutionary Computation

Implementations

In the last chapter, we reviewed the concept

of evolutionary computation, seeing how it

can provide a foundation for computational

intelligence. We examined five main areas

of evolutionary computation: genetic algo-

rithms, evolutionary programming, evolu-

tion strategies, genetic programming, and

particle swarm optimization.

In this chapter, we discuss the com-

mon issues related to the implementation

of evolutionary algorithms. We present two

implementations of evolutionary computa-

tion: a genetic algorithm implementation

and a particle swarm optimization imple-

mentation.

The genetic algorithm (GA) implemen-

tation is basically a “plain vanilla” GA, but

with a few interesting options. It imple-

ments one-point, ...