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From: George Van Treeck <treeck>
Subject: Re: Minimization selection algorithm.
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I don't have book here at work.  But I think Goldberg's 1989 book on
GA discusses this issue.  I think I remember the example being a contiuous
valued function like x squared and you're trying to find the minimum.
Obviously, the maximum is infinte. If you want to normalize the fitness,
then fitness = 1 / (1 + (x*x)) would work.

Well, back to eating my lunch...

-George

