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As explained in Chapt. 3, there are two fundamental forces that form the basis of evolutionary systems: variation and selection. In this chapter we discuss the EA components behind the first one. Since variation operators work at the equivalent of the genetic level, that is to say they work on the representation of solutions, rather than on solutions themselves, this chapter is subdivided into sections that deal with different ways in which solutions can be represented and varied within the overall search algorithm.
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Eiben, A.E., Smith, J.E. (2015). Representation, Mutation, and Recombination. In: Introduction to Evolutionary Computing. Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44874-8_4
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