Genetic algorithm, in computer science, a kind of search technique modeled on evolutionary biology
genetic | algorithm | RSA (algorithm) | Genetic engineering | Secure Hash Algorithm | Genetic analysis | Genetic testing | Genetic recombination | Schönhage–Strassen algorithm | Luhn algorithm | Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act | genetic engineering | Genetic | Earley's Algorithm | Dijkstra's algorithm | CYK algorithm | Viterbi algorithm | The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey | Prim's algorithm | Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm | Kosaraju's algorithm | Yarrow algorithm | sorting algorithm | Root-finding algorithm | Kruskal's algorithm | genetic variation | Genetic admixture | Generic Security Service Algorithm for Secret Key Transaction | Digital Signature Algorithm | Coalition for Genetic Fairness |
Steen Rasmussen at Los Alamos National Laboratory took the idea from Core War one step further in his core world system by introducing a genetic algorithm that automatically wrote programs.
First described by John Holland, his LCS consisted of a population of binary rules on which a genetic algorithm altered and selected the best rules.