From the eBook - First edition.
Front Cover; Foundations of Genetic Algorithms6; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Overcoming Fitness Barriers in Multi-Modal Search Spaces; Chapter 3. Niches in NK-Landscapes; Chapter 4. New Methods for Tunable, Random Landscapes; Chapter 5. Analysis of Recombinative Algorithms on a Non-Separable Building-Block Problem; Chapter 6. Direct Statistical Estimation of GA Landscape Properties; Chapter 7. Comparing Population Mean Curves; Chapter 8. Local Performance of the ((/(I, () -ES in a Noisy Environment.
Chapter 9. Recursive Conditional Scheme Theorem, Convergence and Population Sizing in Genetic AlgorithmsChapter 10. Towards a Theory of Strong Overgeneral Classifiers; Chapter 11. Evolutionary Optimization through PAC Learning; Chapter 12. Continuous Dynamical System Models of Steady-State Genetic Algorithms; Chapter 13. Mutation-Selection Algorithm: A Large Deviation Approach; Chapter 14. The Equilibrium and Transient Behavior of Mutation and Recombination; Chapter 15. The Mixing Rate of Different Crossover Operators; Chapter 16. Dynamic Parameter Control in Simple Evolutionary Algorithms.
Chapter 17. Local Search and High Precision Gray Codes: Convergence Results and NeighborhoodsChapter 18. Burden and Benefits of Redundancy; Author Index; Key Word Index.
