roulette wheel

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This function is used in conjunction with the deviation in fitness, thus providing greater resolution to the selection roulettewheel.
Therefore, the fitness values for two different genes will cause little difference to the size of the respective roulettewheel segments.
A biased random roulettewheel method is used for selection of members for "mating" and for selection of members for new generations.
Is the wheel a wheel of fortune, like a roulettewheel, or a wheel of science and wisdom, like an astrolabe (fig. 10)?
For employee and employer alike, summary justice on the farm may have appeared more attractive than the roulettewheel of the courtroom.
In the paper, the roulettewheel approach is applied.
The fitness values applied to the roulettewheel often require modification, due to the possible close proximity of some fitness values.
In the roulettewheel selection,29 each slice on a roulettewheel has a width corresponding to the particle's selection probability.
For this purpose, the roulettewheel method, which is sized according to fitness, is used to generate the offspring.
The algorithmic form of the proportionate selection is like a biased roulettewheel, where each string is allocated a slot sized in proportion to its fitness.
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