Scala: Guide for Data Science Professionals

Summary

Are you hooked on evolutionary computation, genetic algorithms in particular, and their benefits, limitations as well as some of the common pitfalls? If the answer is yes, then you may find learning classifier systems, introduced in the next chapter, fascinating. This chapter dealt with the following topics:

• Key concepts in evolutionary computing
• The key components and operators of genetic operators
• The pitfalls in defining a fitness or unfitness score using a financial trading strategy as a backdrop
• The challenge of encoding predicates in the case of trading strategies
• Advantages and risks of genetic algorithms
• The process for building a genetic algorithm forecasting tool from the bottom up

The genetic algorithm is an important element of a ...