Forthcoming in Computers and Operations Research An Investigation of Mating and Population Maintenance Strategies in Hybrid Genetic Heuristics for Product Line Designs by

*Corresponding author. P.V. Balakrishnan is an Associate Professor of Marketing, Business Administration Program, University of Washington, Bothell, WA 98021, email:[email protected] R. Gupta is an Assistant Professor of MIS at the University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083. email:[email protected] V.S. Jacob is a Professor of MIS at the University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75083. email:[email protected]