Evolutionary Algorithms in Theory and Practice: Evolution Strategies, Evolutionary Programming, Genetic Algorithms

by Thomas Back

Book Overview

This book presents a unified view of evolutionary algorithms: the exciting new probabilistic search tools inspired by biological models that have immense potential as practical problem-solvers in a wide variety of settings, academic, commercial, and industrial. In this work, the author compares the three most prominent representatives of evolutionary algorithms: genetic algorithms, evolution strategies, and evolutionary programming. The algorithms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195099710
• ISBN13: 9780195099713
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"