Selection Strategy

[Vikas Agrawal]

For pluggable selection strategies such as Roulette Wheel Selection, Tournament Selection and other selection strategies provided, what is the default selectionSize? Is it always equals to the size of the population?

Thanks,

Vikas

[Daniel Dyer]

All of the selection strategies require the number to be specified as an
argument to the select method, so it depends on the implementation of the
EvolutionEngine that you are using. For the GenerationalEvolutionEngine,
this is the size of the population (less the number of individuals that
have been preserved by elitism), so that the size of the population is
constant from generation to generation. The SteadyStateEvolutionEngine on
the other hand typically only selects one or two individuals at a time.
If you want to alter the selection behaviour of any of the evolution
engines, you would have to sub-class it and over-ride the
nextEvolutionStep method.

Dan.

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Daniel Dyer

[Vikas Agrawal]

Thank you Daniel for your prompt response. It helps me a lot. I am new to this field and more I dig in the more I get fascinated by this field. Thanks for developing such a useful framework. I started using it quite a bit for my research.

I had one more question if you can answer. Can we combine two termination conditions i.e. the GenerationalEvolutionEngine should terminate for Stagnation, but if no Stagnation is achieved, then at least to up to the GenerationalCount?

Many thanks for providing support.

Vikas (faculty.uncfsu.edu/vagrawal)

[klaas hoelscher]

Hey Vikas,

it is possible to simply set multiple termination conditions for any EvolutionEngine, see http://watchmaker.uncommons.org/api/org/uncommons/watchmaker/framework/EvolutionEngine.html .

If set to Stagnation for 20 generations and GenerationCount 50, you would have at least 20 runs, at most 50. If you need more fine grained

termination, it would be pretty easy to combine the termination conditions in your own build of the framework.

regards,

Klaas

2013/12/18 Vikas Agrawal <avi...@gmail.com>

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[Vikas Agrawal]

Hello Klass,

Thank you very much for the response. After you explained, I failed to understand how did I miss that point while referencing to API. 

Vikas