Schema Theorem

• determine the expected value of
• , average fitness of individuals of schema
• , average fitness of all individuals in the population at time
• indicates an individual is both a representative of schema and in the population at time
• , probability that the single-point crossover will be applied,
• , probability that the mutation operator will be applied,
• , number of defined bits (not *),
• , distance between the leftmost and rightmost defined bits,
• , length of the bitstrings