  This is a preprint of a book chapter from the Handbook of Memetic Algorithms,
Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 379, ISBN 978-3-642-23246-6,
Springer, edited by F. Neri, C. Cotta, and P. Moscato. It is devoted to the
parametrization of memetic algorithms and how to find a good balance between
global and local search.
