Definitions for "ELITISM"
the attitude that society should be governed by an elite group of individuals
ELITISM (or an elitist strategy) is a mechanism which is employed in some EA which ensures that the CHROMOSOME of the most highly fit member(s) of the POPULATION are passed on to the next GENERATION without being altered by GENETIC OPERATOR Using elitism ensures that the minimum FITNESS of the population can never reduce from one generation to the next. Elitism usually brings about a more rapid convergence of the population. In some applications elitism improves the chances of locating an optimal INDIVIDUAL, while in others it reduces it.
Elitism is the belief or attitude that the people who are considered to be the elite — a selected group of people with outstanding personal abilities, wealth, specialised training or experience, or other distinctive attributes — are the people whose views on a matter are to be taken the most seriously, or that these are persons whose views should be regarded as carrying the most weight, or, more simply, these people are best fit to govern or whose views and/or actions are mostly likely to be constructive. Alternatively, the term elitism could be used to describe a situation in which power is in fact concentrated in the hands of an elite, whether rightly or not.