generations

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

The glossary is being gradually proof checked, but currently has many typos and misspellings.

In biological populations, different indviduals greo, breed and die ate differnet times, the idea of generation os herev=fore kore an average time from birth to breeding. In a genetic algorithm the articial process is usually more lock-step, with a population being considered as a group, with fitness assessment, mutation, breeding and death applied at a single time step.

Used in Chap. 4: page 52