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Selection

The selection mechanism is k-fold tournament selection [8]. By default all results reported here use k=2 unless otherwise stated. From 2 randomly chosen population members, the more fit one is chosen to be one parent. This process is repeated with the 2 competitors again chosen from the entire population to find the second parent. The two population members selected are then used in the crossover operation. All parental pairs for crossover are selected in this way.



Larry Hall
5/26/1998