Another mutation operator suitable for the chromosomes of ordered lists is the scramble mutation. When applied, a random sequence of genes is selected and the order of the genes in that sequence is shuffled (or scrambled), illustrated as follows:
In the next section, we will cover some other types of specialized operators created for real-coded genetic algorithms.
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