Genetic Algorithms as Virtual User Managers
A growing issue in genetic algorithm research involves understanding the paths through the solution space that are explored. This work presents a software design architecture that can aid in the explanation process. This architecture encourages more complete user interfaces on the problem domain application, which facilitates the integration of a genetic algorithm, at the same time, taking advantage of substantial code re-use. The steps taken to increase the usability of the problem domain application can aid in the visualization of the evolutionary paths explored by the genetic algorithm. This effort on the designer's part results in improvements in overall accessibility of the problem domain application and the evolutionary process.
Keywords: Virtual User, visualization, genetic algorithm, domain
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