This was a 4th year coursework done as part of the Emergent Computing for Optimisation module.
The task was to select the best football team from a file of 523 football players. Each player was given a cost and a score associated with their skill level.
The output representation required was a 523 length binary string, with a 1 at the position of each player selected to be taken and a 0 at the position of each player not coming.
I fully detail my approach in the PDF file attached. I will summarise my approach taken below:
I used Python and the Deap library as this has a lot of pre-built EA functions inbuilt. Python is an extremely flexible and easy-to-write language.
I used Jupyter Notebooks as this allows rapid prototyping, quick evaluation and code to be run line by line, which is extremely useful in a Scientific setting.
I used Matplotlib to visualise and compare my operators in the report as it allows for quick and flexible graphing.
