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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> What does the rank
selector from the library exactly do? The manual says: 'picks the
best individual every time'. This is hard to believe, because it should
mate with itself (this is waste of computation time)?? Normally the population
is ranked and every individual is given a probability p[i] in descending order
(lineair, exponential..) then roulettewheel picks one out of it according to the
chance p[i]. Does it work that way or deterministic (ex. 25
best)?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Tournament
selection includes roulettewheel selection (from manual). Is this
roulettewheel selection based on objective scores or fitness scores? Normally it
picks a crowd randomly (without roulettewheel), no</FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Piet Kerckhove</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>