GA- Summary cont'd

• Advantages:

  • Basic method simple and broadly applicable
  • No need for very detailed understandung of the problem
  • But can be adjusted to problem if knowledge present
  • Fast and can be scheduled in parallel

• Disadvantages:

  • No guarantee to find best solution
  • High computational demands
  • Adapting to problems at hand can be hard, e.g. finding suitable representation/mapping and evolutionary operators
  • Search can get “caught” in local optima

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