Evolution Programs and Heuristics

Abstract

As we already discussed in the previous chapters, the best known evolution programs include genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming, evolution strategies, and genetic programming. There are also many hybrid systems which incorporate various features of the above paradigms, and consequently are hard to classify; anyway, we refer to them just as evolution programs (or evolutionary algorithms, or evolutionary computation techniques).

‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said, ‘To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships and sealing wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings.’

Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass