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From: D.Savic@exeter.ac.uk (Dragan Savic)
Subject: Re: GAs and permutation problems
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In article <ajb-240495122350@pdmb.sys.uea.ac.uk>, ajb@sys.uea.ac.uk 
says...

>I'm working with a permutation problem and I vaguely remember someone on
>this list mentioning a crossover operator, other than PMX, called key
>something, and giving a reference. Foolishly I've lost the reference and
>would greatly appreciate someone sending it, or any other relevant
>references, to me or posting it to this list. My address is
>ajb@sys.uea.ac.uk
>Thanks in anticipation 
>
>Tony Bagnall
>School of Information Systems
>University of East Anglia
>Norwich

The following article gives 6 crossover operators for permutation-based 
representation:

Starkweather, T., S. McDaniel, K. Mathias, D. Whitley, and C. Whitley, A 
Comparison of Genetic Sequencing Operators, in Proc. Fourth International 
Conference on Genetic Algorithms, Below,R.K. and Booker, L.B. (eds.), 
1991, pp. 69-76.

Dragan (D.Savic@exeter.ac.uk)

