Re: GA : books for mathematical foundations

John Coleman wrote: 
sarge wrote:

Hi,

I need to get some good book with mathematical explanations for Genetic
Algorithms. I am currently reading Goldberg's but the text is not that
intuitive.

Kindly suggest some good books with mathematical foundations on the
topic. Any online text available would be even better.

- sarge 


Two good books are:

The Simple Genetic Algorithm by Michael Vose and Foundations of Genetic
Programming by Langdon and Poli. In addition to those, Hollands's
original monograph "Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems" is
fairly mathematical in its approach, though some of his assumptions
have been questioned since then.

In addition to the above, you should probably sooner or later look into
a rigourous discussion of the No Free Lunch theorems, although they are
somewhat tangential to your original question.

Hope that helps

-John Coleman


Any recommendations on good books/papers on No Free Lunch theorems?

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