Mikus said:
And I am suspicious of the worth of follow-on generations once a minimum RMSD value has been reached.
While I've seen several examples that would back you up, I've seen others where the minimum occures much later. I think that the project would have to go through their results to come up with a meaniful method of "WHEN TO QUIT" examining the "local terrain around this valley".

One meaningful statistic which argues against you is that 7 of the top 10 current best RMS of A values were found at generation 250.... To me that would suggest that 250 generations is TOO EARLY TO QUIT.... Now the project should examine the results of those runs and determine how many minima/ maxima were encountered in the process of getting there and determine a CRITERIA for WHEN TO QUIT versus terminating the run at a fixed number. (Just my $0.02 worth!)

Ned