Mutation, Crossover not working on GARealGenome

[Alexander Borghgraef]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Naveeed Ahmad wrote:

> Here is the code
>
> GARealAlleleSet alleles(-10.0,10.0);
>
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 I looked into the galib245 code, and I think I found the problem. The
constructor for GARealAlleleSet sets type of the alleleset to
GAAlleleSet::BOUNDED. Now, when the genome-constructor uses 'alleles',
it calls the default UniformInitializer in order to fill it's starting
population, and the function GA1DArrayAlleleGenome::UniformInitializer()
asks the function GAAlleleSet::allele() to return a random member of the
alleleset. Only if you watch the code for allele()

template <class T> T
GAAlleleSet<T>::allele() const {
  if(core->type == GAAllele::ENUMERATED)
    return core->a[GARandomInt(0, core->sz-1)];
  else if(core->type == GAAllele::DISCRETIZED){
    GAErr(GA_LOC, "GAAlleleSet", "allele(unsigned int)", gaErrOpUndef);
    return core->a[0];
  }
  else{
    GAErr(GA_LOC, "GAAlleleSet", "allele(unsigned int)", gaErrOpUndef);
    return core->a[0];
  }
}

it will give you your error message and return a[0], which I suspect
will contain -10 in the case of your code.
 I guess this means galib doesn't allways do what it promises, and you'll
have to write some extensions to the code. Maybe the best thing would be
to derive a class from GAAlleleSet which contains an adapted allele()
member function, which does return a random float between the bounds set
in the constructor. Sorry I can't be of more help than that.

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