Muriel Mewissen obtained her B.Sc. in Computer Science with "la plus grande distinction" at the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Li\`ege, Belgium, in 1992. She obtained her M.Sc. in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Edinburgh in 1994.

The research documented in this paper was carried out whilst she was a Research Associate in the Computer Science Department at Edinburgh University.

She is now working on Genetic Algorithms for Quadstone Ltd, a software consultancy firm also based in Edinburgh.