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I am trying to generate output consisting of three-tuples (A,B,C), where A,B, and C are three different datatypes representing different values. I also have a collection of functions $f_i \in F$ which each take in either one, two, or all of A,B, and C as input, and output whether a condition regarding the relevant variables holds or not. Many $f_i$ compute things about the relationships between A, B, and C. I want to search for the values of (A, B, C) which maximize the number of elements of F which return true.

What search techniques can I use? It seems that standard techniques wouldn't preserve good interdependencies between A and B values which already exist in the population.

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  • $\begingroup$ It depends on the functions f you will encounter. Do they have any structure? Can you characterize the class of possible functions f? Also what is the domain of A,B,C -- are they real numbers, integers, strings, categorical, something else? $\endgroup$
    – D.W. ♦
    Sep 6, 2018 at 2:24
  • $\begingroup$ I don't understand what you mean by "preserve good interdependencies between A and B values which already exist in the population". What population? What do you mean by interdependencies between values? I don't know what it would mean to have an interdependency between 5 and 7. $\endgroup$
    – D.W. ♦
    Sep 6, 2018 at 2:27

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