Abstract This report is one of two products resulting from the work on the problem "Visualizing and comparing population-based randomized search heuristics" during the bachelor project. The second product is a program which was designed as a framework to run and test . The report describes the algorithms, fitness functions and selection mechanisms that have been worked with from a theoretical perspective, how this theory have been implemented and how the program is constructed. Experiments are described and conducted in relation to the theoretical knowledge to compare practical and theoretical data. The results of the experiments showed a good connection between the two kinds of data. Type Bachelor thesis [Academic thesis] Year 2014 Publisher Technical University of Denmark, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Address Matematiktorvet, Building 303B, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, compute@compute.dtu.dk Series B.Sc.-2014 Note DTU supervisor: Carsten Witt, cawi@dtu.dk, DTU Compute Electronic version(s) [pdf] Publication link http://www.imm.dtu.dk/English.aspx BibTeX data [bibtex] IMM Group(s) Computer Science & Engineering