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Appendix A: Review of Genetic Algorithms

In this appendix I briefly review some of the terms and issues related to genetic algorithms in optimization. More detailed accounts can be found in (, , , ).

Model Parameter Encoding
Basic Operators
Other operators
Fitness function
Convergence

Stanford Exploration Project
11/11/2002