Evolutionary Computation Glossary

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INDIVIDUAL:

A single member of a POPULATION. In EC, each INDIVIDUAL contains a CHROMOSOME (or, more generally, a GENOME) which represents a possible solution to the task being tackled, i.e. a single point in the SEARCH SPACE. Other information is usually also stored in each individual, e.g. its FITNESS.

INVERSION:

(EC) A REORDERING operator which works by selecting two cut points in a CHROMOSOME, and reversing the order of all the GENEs between those two points.

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Hitch Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation, Issue 7.4, released 18 January 2000
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