Initial Population Diversity and Performance Independence
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چکیده
It is widely accepted that there is a strong correlation between diversity in the initial population and Genetic Algorithms’ performance. One contribution of this paper is to show that there is not such a strong correlation between diversity and Genetic Algorithms’ performance, at least with the standard range of diversity measures used in a randomly generated population and with the misuse detection problem.
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