Andrés Toro, Bonifacio deGirón Sierra, José María RicardoFernández Blanco, P.Cruz García, Jesús Manuel de laLópez Orozco, José Antonio2023-06-202023-06-2020000-7803-6375-2https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/60851© 2000 IEEE. Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2000) (2000, Jul 16-19. La Jolla, California). The authors want to thank the support of the CICYT Spanish committee (project tap97-0607-c03-01). A lot of experience was taken in parallel GA modelling the motions of a fast ferry.In the recent years we introduced a continuity operator, the "Superindividual", that allows for the inclusion of knowledge in the evolution of the Genetic Algorithm, since we deal with very complex optimization problems, we developed a Parallel Genetic Algorithm, with the Superindividual operator. The paper presents this parallel algorithm, which improves on the results of the conventional Genetic Algorithm. Two different models of Parallel Genetic Algorithms are compared, the results are very encouraging.book parthttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=870776http://ieeexplore.ieee.orgmetadata only access004Computer Science Theory & MethodsEngineering Electrical & ElectronicInformática (Informática)1203.17 Informática