Figure 1

Simulation flow and cross-over. Schematic representation of (A) the flow of the simulation, and (B) the crossover process used to create a child's genome from its parents' genomes. In (B), boxes containing "0" or "1" represent the bits in the bit string. The arrows indicate the random choices done: selecting each parent to get the genome from, in each parent selecting the crossover start string and also selecting the direction for getting the strings in the parent genome.