The minimal deceptive problem revisited: The role of “genetic waste”

Using Goldbergʹs[10] minimal deceptive problem, we devise a simple method for setting the initial parameters of a genetic algorithm based on the role of nonsense codons in natural genetics. “Genetic waste” provides random parameters throughout the simulations, enabling the abandonment of trial and error search for the optimal combination of initial parameters and thereby adding credibility to the genetic algorithm as a tool of adaptive search.