ABSTRACT
In this chapter we will try to look inside the internal functioning of several GA variants already discussed in previous chapters. For this purpose we use the information about globally optimal solutions which is only available for well studied benchmark problems of moderate dimension. Of course, the applied optimization strategies (i.e., in our case variants of GAs) are not allowed to use any information about the global optimum; we just use this information for analysis purposes in order to obtain a better understanding of the internal functioning and the dynamics of the most relevant algorithmic concepts discussed so far.
