What You Learned

In this chapter, you learned about reinsertion and different types of reinsertion strategies. You learned how to implement different reinsertion strategies, and you analyzed the impacts of different reinsertion strategies on a scheduling problem.

You also learned how you can grow and shrink your population—and do so without falling into the traps of exponential decay and growth.

Finally, you learned about local reinsertion and local populations and how they differ from global reinsertion strategies and global genetic algorithms.

In the next chapter, you’ll step away from the internals of a genetic algorithm and instead focus on how you can track how fitness, age, and other metrics change during evolutions. Rather than focus on improving your algorithms and learning new techniques, you’ll learn how to compare performance between algorithms and better track the progress of an algorithm.