Analysis of Genetic Algorithm

This thesis deals with analysis of genetic algorithms. It is focused on various approaches to creation of new populations. A comparison between basic principles of operation of genetic algorithms and processes occurring in living organisms is drawn here. Some methods of application of particular steps of genetic algorithms are introduced and a suitability of the methods to certain types of problems is considered. The main goal in the thesis is to apply genetic algorithms in solving three types of optimization problems, namely the solution of functions with a single major extreme, functions with flat (slight) extreme and also functions with many local extremes