遗传算法是计算数学中用于解决最佳化的搜索算法，是进化算法的一种。进化算法最初是借鉴了进化生物学中的一些现象而发展起来的，这些现象包括遗传、突变、自然选择以及杂交等。遗传算法通常实现方式为一种计算机模拟。(Genetic algorithm is a search algorithm used to solve the optimization in computational mathematics. It is one of the evolutionary algorithms. Evolutionary algorithms originally developed from some phenomena in evolutionary biology, such as heredity, mutation, natural selection and hybridization. Genetic algorithms are usually implemented as a computer simulation.)