**Meet the editor**

Shangce Gao received his BS degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2005, and his MS and PhD degrees in Intellectual Information Systems and Innovative Life Science from the University of Toyama, Japan in 2008 and 2011 respectively. From 2005 to 2006, he was a technical support engineer in Microsoft Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China. He has received the Outstanding

Academic Performance Award of IEICE Hokuriku Branch in 2008, the Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad Award of Chinese Government from China Scholarship Council in 2009, the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award of IPSJ Hokuriku Branch in 2011, and the Outstanding Doctoral Award of University of Toyama in 2011. He is currently an associate research fellow at the Key Laboratory of Embedded System and Service Computing, Ministry of Education, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China. His main research interests are intelligent computing and brain cognition.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

**Part 1 Recent Development of Genetic Algorithm 1** 

Chapter 1 **The Successive Zooming Genetic Algorithm** 

Chapter 2 **The Network Operator Method for Search** 

Askhat Diveev and Elena Sofronova

Chapter 4 **The Roles of Crossover and Mutation in** 

Chapter 5 **A Splicing/Decomposable Binary Encoding** 

**Evolutionary Algorithms 83** 

Chapter 6 **Genetic Algorithms: An Overview** 

Chapter 7 **Tune Up of a Genetic Algorithm** 

José Luis Castillo Sequera

Yong Liang

Popa Rustem

**Real-Coded Genetic Algorithms 65**  Yourim Yoon and Yong-Hyuk Kim

**and Its Novel Operators for Genetic and** 

**Part 2 New Applications of Genetic Algorithm 121** 

**to Group Documentary Collections 123** 

**with Applications in Evolvable Hardware 105** 

Young-Doo Kwon and Dae-Suep Lee

**of the Most Suitable Mathematical Equation 19** 

Chapter 3 **Performance of Simple Genetic Algorithm Inserting Forced** 

Esther Lugo-González, Emmanuel A. Merchán-Cruz, Luis H. Hernández-Gómez, Rodolfo Ponce-Reynoso,

**Inheritance Mechanism and Parameters Relaxation 43** 

Christopher R. Torres-San Miguel and Javier Ramírez-Gordillo

**and Its Applications 3** 
