Re: encoding problem

Patrick May <pjm@xxxxxxx> writes:
The only other obvious approach I can suggest without knowing
more details of the domain is to include in the chromosome a few bits
for each of the variables and only treat the four with the highest
values as active.

Rudely following up to myself, another option occurred to me just
as I sent the last post. The number of unique combinations of four
elements taken from ten is (10! / 4! * (10 - 4)!), or 210. This fits
comfortably into eight bits. If you map each number in the range
0-209 to a specific combination and include it in your chromosome, you
should be able to evolve only allowed solutions.

Regards,

Patrick

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