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A genetic algorithm is a computer simulation in which a population of abstract representations of candidate solutions to an optimization problem are stochastically selected, recombined, mutated, and then either eliminated or retained, based on their relative fitnesses.


Anna Hondroudakis, Joel Malard, Gregory V. Wilson, An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms Using RPL2, 1995 Revised May 1996: http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/computing/training/document_archive/GAs-course/main.html

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