January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
390 pages
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English
To perform the crossover operation, we select a random position on the chromosome of two parents, then the genetic information is swapped between them about this point, with a probability Px. This results in two new offspring. When the crossover takes place over a random point, it is called a one-point crossover (or Single Point Crossover):

We can also have more than one point where parents' genes are swapped; this is called a Multi-Point Crossover:
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