. . . "See Lawrence Davis, Bit-Climbing, Representational Bias and Test Suite Design, 1991 Proceedings of the Fourth Int'l Conf. on Genetic Algorithms, U.C. San Diego 18-23, which is herebyincorporated by reference in its entirety.What is needed, therefore, is a technique of estimating the inverse source wavelet of a seismic shot record for improved accuracy and efficie" .