Table 1. A classification of search (generate-and-test) algorithms.

Solitary Search	Parallel Search	Parallel Search with Competition (Price)	Parallel Search with Competition and Information Transmission (JMS)
(Stochastic) hill climbing/Simulated Annealing	Independent hill climbers, e.g. with restart	Competitive Learning	Genetic Natural Selection
Markov Chain Monte Carlo		Reinforcement Learning	Adaptive Immune System
		Synaptic Selectionism	Genetic Algorithms
		Neural “Darwinism”	Neuronal Replicators