Some authors have introduced a different terminology, cf. or [410], but after the publication of [133] the one in Fig. 8.1 became the most widely accepted one. However, we acknowledge that the terminology proposed here is not perfect. For instance, the term “deterministic” control might not be the most appropriate, as it is not determinism that matters, but the fact that the parameter-altering mechanism is “uninformed”, i.e., takes no input related to the progress of the search process. For example, one might randomly change the mutation probability after every 100 generations, which is not a deterministic process. Also, the terms “adaptive” and “self-adaptive” could be replaced by the equally meaningful “explicitly adaptive” and “implicitly adaptive”, respectively. We have chosen to use “adaptive” and “self-adaptive” because of the widely accepted usage of the latter term.