2020-01-26
Holland (1975) included proposals for adapting the encodings in his original proposal for GAs (also see Goldberg (1989a). Holland, acutely aware that correct linkage is essential for single-point crossover to work well, proposed an inversion operator specifically to deal with the linkage problem in fixed-length strings. Inversion is a reordering operator inspired by a similar operator in real genetics. Unlike simple GAs, in real genetics the function of a gene is often independent of its...