 |
    |
Normalization in Genetic Algorithms
Sung-Soon Choi and Byung-Ro Moon
School of Computer Science and Engineering
Seoul National University
Seoul, 151-742 Korea
{sschoi,moon}@soar.snu.ac.kr
Abstract. Normalization is an approach that transforms the genotype of one parent to be consistent with that of the other parent. It is a method for alleviating difficulties caused by redundant encodings in genetic algorithms. We show that normalization plays a role of reducing the search space to another one of less size. We provide insight into normalization through theoretical arguments, performance tests, and examination of fitness-distance correlations.
LNCS 2723, p. 862 ff.
lncs@springer.de
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003