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Dakota Reference Manual
Version 6.15
Explore and Predict with Confidence
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Create new population randomly
Alias: none
Argument(s): INTEGER
The replacement_type
controls how current populations and newly generated individuals are combined to create a new population. Each of the replacement_type
selections accepts an integer value, which is referred as the replacement_size:
The random
setting creates a new population using:
replacement_size
randomly selected individuals from the current population, and population_size
- replacement_size
individuals randomly selected from among the newly generated individuals (the number of which is optionally specified using new_solutions_generated
) that are created for each generation (using the selection, crossover, and mutation procedures).