- Removed obsolete whole_chromosome method.
- Renamed single_gene to individual_genes.
- Rewrote single_genes to use copied data instead of modifying original data.
- Added random_selection_then_cross.
Overall cleaned up a lot of comments.
EasyGA:
- Code cleanup.
Population:
- Added sort_by_best_fitness
- Added parent/mating pool methods.
- Renamed some methods for consistency.
Chromosome:
- Added get_gene(index).
Parent Selection:
- Improved selection methods to use the ga.selection_probability so that the roulette selection actually works well.
- Added stochastic selection.
Survivor Selection:
- Added fill_in_random and fill_in_parents_then_random.
Crossover/Mutation:
- Cleaned up code.
Crossover/Mutation:
- Split into individual and population subclasses.
- Added sequential population crossover selection.
- Renamed and reimplemented mutation methods.
EasyGA:
- Improved make_obj methods for the chromosomes and populations to take arguments.
Initialization:
- Improved to shorter code.
- Fixed repeated error messages
Chromosome:
- Changed get/set_genes to get/set_gene_list.
Instead of a nested approach, selection/crossover/mutation are all called separately and directly by the GA. selection_impl was also separated into parent_selection_impl and survivor_selection_impl, as both are needed separately.
The current test implementation includes random mutation, single point crossover, and tournament selection. The implementation, in short, is a nested approach. The selection method is the only thing actually called by the GA. Both crossover and mutation occur within the selection method. As long as these three systems all follow a standard input/output system, any implementation we build, as well as any user implementations, will work perfectly. The selection function must take GA as a parameter and output a new population. Crossover takes in GA and outputs a population. Mutation takes a chromosome set and outputs a new chromosome set.
Many of the changes in this commit are regarding this test implementation. I have also changed many of the file names from "x_examples" to "x_types" and updated the class names to follow capitalziation standards. I did this because I feel personally like the built-in mutation, crossover, and selection implementations are less "examples" and more just already built implementations to make the code required from the user smaller.
