They sifted through unemployment statistics to find the optimal population of potential nannies for Matilda: 20-something teachers.
It is a perhaps quixotic undertaking, but it could prove to be lucrative should the game achieve some measure of popularity within the vast population of potential fans.
Most of the poorer schools, Mr. Gollaher said, connect to the Internet using a relatively slow 56 kilobit-per-second connection, which may be fine for sending e-mail but prevents a large population of potential users from experiencing the full scope and power of the Internet.
"There's a huge population of potential defendants that we are investigating," E. Danya Perry, an assistant United States attorney, told a judge in Federal District Court in Manhattan as she disclosed the impending charges against more defendants, all of whom are retired railroad workers.
They were culled from the burg she lived in and maybe from the next village over, so that her total population of potential suitors — men in an acceptable age range, with discernible pulses and a majority of their limbs — was five if she was lucky, three if the burg had just emerged from a period of savage smallpox.
Genetic algorithm requires a population of potential solution of the give problem to be initialized.
Considering a population of potential adopters of a technology, we set-up a model composed of interacting agents.
In reality, many innovations do not end up being adopted by the whole population of potential adopters.
Only 5% of potential illegal migrants have a university level, which is five times less than in the population of potential legal migrants.
GAs operate on a population of potential solutions applying the principle of survival of the fittest to produce better and better approximations to a solution [12].
Also, they are not limited to keep only one solution for a problem, but they are extended to conserve a population of potential solutions for a problem.
