Application of Chaos in Genetic AlgorithmsThe project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60074020

Through replacing Gaussian mutation operator in real-coded genetic algorithm with a chaotic mapping, we present a genetic algorithm with chaotic mutation. To examine this new algorithm, we applied our algorithm to function optimization problems and obtained good results. Furthermore the orbital points' distribution of chaotic mapping and the effects of chaotic mutation with different parameters were studied in order to make the chaotic mutation mechanism be utilized efficiently.