This paper sheds some light on the debate concerning evolutionary search using Prüfer numbers, and explains some of the controversial results. Previous work has shown that Prüfer numbers have low locality. Furthermore, it has been shown elsewhere that the locality of the Prüfer number depends...

When handling tree networks, a number of researchers have tried using the pruefernumberrepresentation for encoding the network, but GAs often degraded or broke down when used onthis encoding. This paper investigates the locality of the pruefernumber, which can be describedas the relatedness of...