A few references on GAs

1. Holland, J. H. (1975) Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press

2. D. E. Goldberg, Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning, Addision-Wesley 1989

3. L. Davis, Ed., Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing, Morgan Kaufmann 1987

4. J. G. Elias, "Genetic Generation of Connection Patterns for a Dynamic Artificial Neural Network," in Combinations of Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks, eds. L. D. Whitley and J. D. Schaffer, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, pp. 38-54, 1992. abstract only