Exploring Selection
Selection is vital to the performance of a genetic algorithm because it contributes to the creation of good solutions for the next generation. The idea is that parents have characteristics that make them strong based on your fitness criteria and will pass these characteristics on to the next generation of solutions.
Consider this: in medieval and early modern Europe, monarchs would carefully select partners to maintain their status as royalty. The idea was based on the assumption that royal blood was stronger and the genes of a commoner would ruin the purity of the bloodline.
Monarchs practiced a loose derivative of selection. They would choose partners based on territory, power, money, and other factors, which essentially ...
Get Genetic Algorithms in Elixir now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
