crossover.Niche {galgo}R Documentation

Performs crossover between chromosomes of the niche

Description

Perform crossover between chromosomes of the niche. This method is called inside progeny method.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'Niche':
crossover(ni, n=(ni$crossoverFunc)(ni), ...)

Arguments

n Number of crossover to perform. The default is obtained calling crossoverFunc.

Value

Returns the ``males'' and ``females'' chromosomes used to crossover.

Author(s)

Victor Trevino. Francesco Falciani Group. University of Birmingham, U.K. http://www.bip.bham.ac.uk/bioinf

References

Goldberg, David E. 1989 Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning. Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. ISBN: 0201157675

See Also

For more information see Niche. *progeny().

Examples

  cr <- Chromosome(genes=newCollection(Gene(shape1=1, shape2=1000),5))
  cr
  ni <- Niche(chromosomes = newRandomCollection(cr, 10))
  ni
  crossover(ni)
  ni
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