> It seems to me that one needs another genetic algorithm to manage all the variables (such as mutation rate, population size, crossover, etc) because they have

> It seems to me that one needs another genetic algorithm to manage all the variables (such as mutation rate, population size, crossover, etc) because they have such an impact on the effectiveness of the algorithm. This has been tried in the literature -- usually by adding those parameters to the genome. Basically it's a wash.