This book is aimed at offering some insight into the dynamics of evolutionary algorithms, which are primarily stochastic heuristic schemes. Since the comprehensive theoretical formulation encompassing the entire spectrum of evolutionary schemes is difficult, if not impossible, the present treatise may be viewed as an effort to make mathematical chracterization of the dynamics of some restricted class of evolutionary algorithms. Naturally, the endeavour can further be extended to incorporate even wider class of evolutionary algorithms. In that sense, this treatment may be viewed as the...