Summary
Evolutionary algorithms bring new light to AI's optimizing potential. In this chapter, we studied how heredity deeply affects population distribution. The impact of our environment can be measured through genetic mutations.
Drilling down further, we focused on a class of GAs implementing a simulation of genetic transformations through many generations. We explored how a parent will transmit some genes, but how the selection of diverse genes from the generation population of genes will produce variations. A chromosome will inherit some genes but not others.
The pressure of nature and our environment will take over. A fitness function evaluates a string of genes. Only the fittest will survive. The fittest genetic material will produce a crossover and mutation of the child, making it fitter for its environment.
GAs can be used to represent strings of any type of data and also features of that data. The optimizing process can be applied to warehouses...