• showing that overwhelming majority of practical problems may be expressed in a unified way,
• pointing that the so called "tuning parameters", like population size, mutation ratio, and mating probability among others, need not to be problem-specific.

More precisely, only some of the tuning parameters are really important and their values should satisfy pretty simple necessary conditions (inequalities) in order to work correctly and efficiently.  These conditions are completely unrelated to the specific problem under consideration.

Small-world view of the complete space where 5-bit long chromosomes may live. 

The figure accompanies the talk "Gentle but rigorous introduction to genetic algorithms" by Marek W. Gutowski.

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