Overwrites the new niche selecting a new population from the best chromosomes

Description

Overwrites the new niche selecting from the best chromosomes. This method is called in the progeny method. For more information see Niche. for complete description.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'Niche':
offspring(ni, ...)

Details

The basic idea to generate a progeny is a selection biased toward the best chromosomes (see Goldberg). We implented this idea as a weighted probability (*scaling()).

offspring is part of progeny method.

For related details For more information see Niche.

Value

Returns the selected chromosomes.

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(), *scaling().

Examples

   cr <- Chromosome(genes=newCollection(Gene(shape1=1, shape2=1000),5))
   cr
   ni <- Niche(chromosomes = newRandomCollection(cr, 10))
   ni
   ni$fitness <- 1:10/10 # tricky fitness, only for showing purposes
   scaling(ni)
   offspring(ni)
   ni