elitist
Use the best designs to form a new population
Specification
Alias: None
Arguments: None
Description
The elitist
(default) setting creates a new population using (a)
the replacement_size
best individuals from the current population,
(b) and population_size
- replacement_size
individuals randomly
selected from the newly generated individuals. It is possible in this
case to lose a good solution from the newly generated individuals if
it is not randomly selected for replacement; however, the default
new_solutions_generated
value is set such that the entire set of newly
generated individuals will be selected for replacement.