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.