The Cycle Crossover (CX) is an algorithm that considers the gene order in the parental chromosomes (Oliver et.al., 1987).
Usage
cx(x1, x2, cxon, ...)
Arguments
x1
A vector. It contains the chromosomal information of parent-1.
x2
A vector. It contains the chromosomal information of parent-2.
cxon
Number of offspring to be generated as a result of crossover
…
Further arguments passed to or from other methods.
Value
A matrix containing the generated offsprings.
References
Oliver, I.M., Smith, D. and Holland J.R. (1987). Study of the permutation crossover operators on the traveler salesman problem. In Grefenstette, J.J. (ed). Genetic Algorithms and Their Applications, Proc. of the 2nd Int. Conf. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 224-230.