The book is dedicated to the use of genetic algorithms in theoretical economic research. Genetic algorithms offer the chance of overcoming the limitations traditional mathematical tractability puts on economic research and thus open new horzions for economic theory. The book reveals close...

When using gentic and evolutionary algorithms (GEAs) for the optimal communication spanning problem, the design of a suitable tree network encoding is crucial for finding good solutions. The link and node biased (LNB) encoding represents the structure of a tree network using a weighted vector...

This paper adresses the optimization of telecommunication networks for a multi-period horizon. Four heuristics are presented to cope with the problem to minimize the overall costsfor a network over several periods. For the minimization of cost we use a simple genetic algorithm (GE).[...]

The most important element in the design of a decoder-based evolutionary algorithmis its genotypic representation. The genotype-decoder pair must exhibit efficiency, locality, and heritability to enable effective evolutionary search.[...]