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• Leo Tolstoy
• Mark Twain
• Voltaire
• The Brontë Sisters
• Dante
• Emily Dickinson
• Dostoevsky
• Alexandre Dumas

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“This volume expands upon the basic ideas underlying evolutionary algorithms. The focus is on fitness evaluation, constraint-handling techniques, population structures, advanced techniques in evolutionary computation and implementation of evolutionary algorithms. It is intended to be used by individual researchers and by teachers and students in the expanding field of evolutionary computation”.

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Michalewicz, Zbigniew | ISBN: 3-540-60676-9
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