...structure.
In the rest of the thesis, structure and description of structure are taken as equivalent unless otherwise stated.
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...string
For clarity, this thesis only considers binary encodings. The same ideas can be extended to higher-cardinality alphabets or real numbers.
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...evaluation
The evaluation function is also called the fitness function from the analogy with biological fitness
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...guidance.
Note that in MX, this is done without regard to defining length.
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Sushil J. Louis
Wed Jun 25 15:17:05 PDT 1997