Function PGASelectTournamentWithReplacement

Defined in File select.c

Function Documentation

static int PGASelectTournamentWithReplacement(PGAContext *ctx, int pop)

Choose N strings randomly and return the one with best evaluation.

Description

The configuration parameter N is the value set with PGASetTournamentSize(), the default is 2. The selection happens with replacement. This is a generalization of Goldbergs description [Gol89], for the generalization see, e.g. in Goldberg and Deb [GD91].

Example

PGAContext *ctx,
int l;

...
l = PGASelectTournamentWithReplacement (ctx, PGA_OLDPOP);

Parameters:

ctx – context variable
pop – symbolic constant of population to select from

Returns:

index of the selected string