Collection of Evolutionary Computation Algorithms to use for Teaching
Evolutionary Algorithm for Travelling Salesman Problem is in pony_ea
Evolutionary Computation terms:
- Population, a set of individuals
- Individual, an individual solution
- Fitness, a quality measure of an individual
- Generation, an iteration of the Evolutionary Algorithm
- Gene, the basic representation of an individual
- Chromosome, a set of genes of an individual
- Crossover, a recombination of two individuals' genomes
- Mutation, a permutation of an individual's genome
- Elite, individuals preserved from the old population and inserted into the new population
- Fitness function, a function used to evaluate the fitness of an individual