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AI - a Guide to Intelligent Systems.pdf - Member of EEPIS

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EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION<br />

being reached. One way <strong>of</strong> providing some degree <strong>of</strong> insurance is <strong>to</strong> compare<br />

results obtained under different rates <strong>of</strong> mutation. Let us, for example, increase<br />

the mutation rate <strong>to</strong> 0.01 and rerun the GA. The population might now converge<br />

on the chromosomes shown in Figure 7.6(d). However, <strong>to</strong> be sure <strong>of</strong> steady<br />

results we must increase the size <strong>of</strong> the chromosome population.<br />

Figure 7.7 Performance graphs for 100 generations <strong>of</strong> 6 chromosomes: (a) local<br />

maximum solution and (b) global maximum solution <strong>of</strong> the ‘peak’ function

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