Evolutionary Algorithms for Optimization
Natural selection is the process by which the forms of organisms in a population that are best adapted to the environment increase in frequency relative to less well adapted forms over a number of generations. Charles Darwin … was the first to see that this process can explain both evolution and adaptation.
In this chapter, we introduce the basic principles of evolutionary algorithms, which we consider specific examples of adaptive systems. A formal representation scheme of evolving systems will provide us with the main concepts of evolutionary optimization. First, in Sections 2.1 and 2.2, we discuss a formalism to model general adaptive systems. In Section 2.3, we apply this model to ...
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