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A Distance Between Populations for n-Points Crossover in Genetic Algorithms

Neural and Evolutionary Computing 2017-07-04 v1

Abstract

Genetic algorithms (GAs) are an optimization technique that has been successfully used on many real-world problems. There exist different approaches to their theoretical study. In this paper we complete a recently presented approach to model one-point crossover using pretopologies (or Cech topologies) in two ways. First, we extend it to the case of n-points crossover. Then, we experimentally study how the distance distribution changes when the number of crossover points increases.

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@article{arxiv.1707.00451,
  title  = {A Distance Between Populations for n-Points Crossover in Genetic Algorithms},
  author = {Mauro Castelli and Gianpiero Cattaneo and Luca Manzoni and Leonardo Vanneschi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.00451},
  year   = {2017}
}
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