Table of Contents |
| Smoothness, Ruggedness and Neutrality of Fitness Landscapes: from Theory to Application / Vesselin K. Vassilev, Terence C. Fogarty, Julian F. Miller | 3 |
| Fast Evolutionary Algorithms / Xin Yao, Yong Liu, Ko-Hsin Liang, Guangming Lin | 45 |
| Visualizing Evolutionary Computation / Trevor D. Collins | 95 |
| New Schemes of Biologically Inspired Evolutionary Computation / Hidefumi Sawai, Susumu Adachi, Sachio Kizu | 117 |
| On the Design of Problem-specific Evolutionary Algorithms / Stefan Droste, Dirk Wiesmann | 153 |
| Multiparent Recombination in Evolutionary Computing / A. E. Eiben | 175 |
| TCG-2: A Test-case Generator: for Non-linear Parameter Optimisation Techniques / Zbigniew Michalewicz, Martin Schmidt | 193 |
| A Real-coded Genetic Algorithm Using the Unimodal Normal Distribution Crossover / Isao Ono, Hajime Kita, Shigenobu Kobayashi | 213 |
| Designing Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimization Problems / Jurgen Branke, Hartmut Schmeck | 239 |
| Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms: Introducing Bias Among Pareto-optimal Solutions / Kalyanmoy Deb | 263 |
| Gene Expression and Scalable Genetic Search / Hillol Kargupta | 293 |
| Solving Permutation Problems with the Ordering Messy Genetic Algorithm / Dimitri Knjazew, David E. Goldberg | 321 |
| Effects of Adding Perturbations to Phenotypic Parameters in Genetic Algorithms for Searching Robust Solutions / Shigeyoshi Tsutsui, Ashish Ghosh | 351 |
| Evolution of Strategies for Resource Protection Problems / William M. Spears, Diana F. Gordon-Spears | 367 |
| A Unified Bayesian Framework for Evolutionary Learning and Optimization / Byoung-Tak Zhang | 393 |
| Designed Sampling with Crossover Operators / Akiko Aizawa | 413 |
| Evolutionary Computation for Evolutionary Theory / C. C. Maley | 441 |
| Computational Embryology: Past, Present and Future / Sanjeev Kumar, Peter J. Bentley | 461 |
| An Evolutionary Approach to Synthetic Biology: Zen in the Art of Creating Life / Thomas S. Ray | 479 |
| Scatter Search / Fred Glover, Manuel Laguna, Rafael Marti | 519 |
| The Ant Colony Optimization Paradigm for Combinatorial Optimization / Antonella Carbonaro, Vittorio Maniezzo | 539 |
| Evolving Coordinated Agents / Sandip Sen, Sandip Debnath, Manisha Mundhe | 559 |
| Exploring the Predictable / Jurgen Schmidhuber | 579 |
| Approaches to Combining Local and Evolutionary Search for Training Neural Networks: A Review and Some New Results / Kim W. C. Ku, M. W. Mak, W. C. Siu | 615 |
| Evolving Analog Circuits by Variable Length Chromosomes / Shin Ando, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Hitoshi Iba | 643 |
| Human-competitive Applications of Genetic Programming / John R. Koza | 663 |
| Evolutionary Algorithms for the Physical Design of VLSI Circuits / James Cohoon, John Karro, Jens Lienig | 683 |
| From Theory to Practice: An Evolutionary Algorithm for the Antenna Placement Problem / Jorg Zimmermann, Robin Hons, Heinz Muhlenbein | 713 |
| Routing Optimization in Corporate Networks by Evolutionary Algorithms / Thomas Back, Claus Hillermeier, Jorg Ziegenhirt | 739 |
| Genetic Algorithms and Timetabling / Peter Ross, Emma Hart, David Corne | 755 |
| Machine Learning by Schedule Decomposition - Prospects for an Integration of AI and OR Techniques for Job Shop Scheduling / Ulrich Dorndorf, Erwin Pesch, Ton Phan Huy | 773 |
| Scheduling of Bus Drivers' Service by a Genetic Algorithm / Ikuo Yoshihara | 799 |
| A Survey of Evolutionary Algorithms for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery / Alex A. Freitas | 819 |
| Data Mining from Clinical Data Using Interactive Evolutionary Computation / Takao Terano, Masanori Inada | 847 |
| Learning-integrated Interactive Image Segmentation / Bir Bhanu, Stephanie Fonder | 863 |
| An Immunogenetic Approach in Chemical Spectrum Recognition / Yuehua Cao, Dipankar Dasgupta | 897 |
| Application of Evolutionary Computation to Protein Folding / Steffen Schulze-Kremer | 915 |
| Evolutionary Generation of Regrasping Motion / Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Toshio Fukuda | 941 |
| Recent Trends in Learning Classifier Systems Research / Pier Luca Lanzi, Rick L. Riolo | 955 |
| Better than Samuel: Evolving a Nearly Expert Checkers Player / David B. Fogel | 989 |
| Index | 1005 |