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Solution of the Ant Problem

  Using the probability P of finding a solution we can calculate the number of program evaluations needed to ensure we find a solution (with probability ). This is known as ``Effort'' required, cf. [Koza1992, page 194,]:

 

Taking as 1% we can calculate the number of fitness evaluations E required to find at least one solution (with probability ).





William B Langdon
Tue Feb 3 19:53:29 GMT 1998