Two-Loop Real-Coded Genetic Algorithms with Adaptive Control of Mutation Step Sizes

摘要

Genetic algorithms are adaptive methods based on natural evolution that may be used for search and optimization problems. They process a population of search space solutions with three operations: selection, crossover, and mutation. Under their initial formulation, the search space solutions are coded using the binary alphabet, however other coding types have been taken into account for the representation issue, such as real coding. The real-coding approach seems particularly natural when tackling optimization problems of parameters with variables in continuous domains.