Genetic Algorithm

[troelsi]

Hi

Any tips on how to handle the representation format used by GA.

The representation format that I'm working on can be thought of as a string of paired values and the sequence of these paired values represents a sequence ie.:

(1,2) (3,4) (1,7)

Several strings are generated in order to represent a population.
At this moment I'm using an two-dimensional array(population, sequence) defined as an single array to represent the above string.
If the above string represents population 1 then
array(1,2) = 3,4

However something tells me that there is a much better way to represent these strings. Especially when the crossover between to strings and the mutation has to be carried out.


Any Ideas?

Best regards
Troels

[Ebrow]

Not sure what you are looking for. Is it something like this?

[VBA]

Type myArrayType
myPart1 As String
myPart2 As String
End Type
Public myArray(999, 999) As myArrayType

Sub test()
myArray(1, 1).myPart1 = "5"
myArray(1, 1).myPart2 = "6"
End Sub
[/VBA]