A pattern of genes in a contiguous section of a chromosome which, if present, confers a high fitness

A regular array of identical finite state automata whose next state is determined solely by their current state and the state of their neighbours. The most widely seen is the game of Life

An extension of genetic algorithms

Two or more populations are evolved at the same time. Often the separate populations compete against each other.

Tendency of members of the population to be the same. May be used to mean either their representation or behaviour are identical. Loosely a genetic algorithm

Normally, in genetic algorithms

Creating a new individual's representation from parts of its parents' representations. Deme

An elitist genetic algorithm

A term from biology used to denote that the fitness

A population containing a number of trial solutions each of which is evaluated to yield an error. Typically, at the end of each generation,