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Algorithms for Multidimensional Scaling

By: J.E. Everett

In this chapter, we will be looking at the potential for using genetic algorithms to map a set of objects in a multidimensional space. Genetic algorithms have a couple of advantages over the standard multidimensional scaling procedures that appear in many commercial computer packages. We will see that the most frequently cited advantage of genetic algorithms, the ability to avoid being trapped in a local optimum, applies in the case of multidimensional scaling. Using a genetic algorithm, or at least a...