ABSTRACT

This chapter presents the basic aspects of real-valued encoding. The basic evolutionary operators using this coding are presented and sev­ eral variants of these operators are considered.

The main topics of the chapter are

• discrete and continuous recombination,

• multi-parent recombination,

• SBX recombination operator,

• fitness-based recombination,

• uniform and non-uniform mutation,

• normal and Cauchy mutations.