Discuss the role of techniques such as gray coding for shaping the search space of the genetic algorithm. Describe two other areas where similar techniques may be important. Read Holland’s Schema...

Discuss the role of techniques such as gray coding for shaping the search space of the genetic algorithm. Describe two other areas where similar techniques may be important.

Read Holland’s Schema Theorem (Mitchell 1996, Koza 1992). How does Holland’s schema theory describe the evolution of the GA solution space? What does it have to say about problems not encoded as bit strings?