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From: helmut@cosy.sbg.ac.at (Helmut Mayer)
Subject: Re: Genetic Algorithms waste of time
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Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 13:41:49 GMT
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Mohamed Q. Qasem writes

[...]

# I ran the program and looked at the numbers closely.  And this is what 
# happened.  All what the crossover did was duplicate more of the fittest 
# chromosomes (for the most part).  So really cross over was the reason for 
# the survival of the fittest.

[...]

If you set the crossover probability p_c to small values (e.g., p_c = 0.1) this  
is what will happen, but "usually" a range of 0.6 - 1.0 for p_c is suggested in  
literature. Did you run experiments with different values for p_c?

Best regards,

Helmut

P.S.: Refs at request..;-)
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