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Parameter control is an essential aspect of successful evolutionary search. Various parameter control and tuning methods have been proposed in the history of evolutionary computation, cf. Fig. 3.1 for a short taxonomy.

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Kramer, O. (2014). Parameter Control. In: A Brief Introduction to Continuous Evolutionary Optimization. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03422-5_3

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