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Crossover is the most important step in genetic algorithm, which passes on good genes of the parents to the next generation. However, the crossover operator can't ensure the offspring finding the globally optimum because of its blind search. A weighted crossover operator is proposed to overcome the disadvantages. Weighted values are calculated according to the adaptive values of the parents. One offspring...