Differences between Ga's and traditional methods

GA are radially different from traditional optimiztion methods.
Differences are

* GA's work with string coding of variables instead of variables.so that coding discretising the search space even though the function is continuous.

* GA's work with population of points instead of single point.

* In GA's previously found good infomation is emphasizedusing reproduction operator and propagated adaptively through crossover and mutation operators.

* GA does not require any auxillary informationexcept yhe objective function values. * GA uses the probabilities in their operators.

This nature of narrowing the search spaceas the search progresses ,is adaptive andis the unique characteristic of Genetic Algorithms.