I have a function that I try to optimize using Particle Swarm Optimization. Objective function gets a binary string. So these binary strings are candidate solutions of the subject function. I can measure the dissimilarity between two solution, but I need to move one solution towards another by a factor, meaning I need a vector. Is there any methods to do that?
Example:
a = 0011001
b = 0011010
I want to move a towards b by the factor of 0.4. So I need to find another string that is similarity between a is 0.6 and similarity between b is 0.4.
I hope I could explain myself clear.