Table of Contents

• Interacting Trajectories in Design Space and Niche Space: A Philosopher Speculates About EvolutionAaron Sloman. 3-16
• Language as a Complex Adaptive SystemLuc Steels. 17-26
• Cellular Evolutionary Algorithms: Evaluating the Influence of RatioEnrique Alba, José M. Troya. 29-38
• Efficiency and Mutation Strength Adaptation of the (mu, mu::I::, lambda)-ES in a Noisy EnvironmentDirk V. Arnold, Hans-Georg Beyer. 39-48
• An Analysis of the Configuration Space of the Maximal Constraint Satisfaction ProblemMeriema Belaidouni, Jin-Kao Hao. 49-58
• On the Desired Behaviors of Self-Adaptive Evolutionary AlgorithmsHans-Georg Beyer, Kalyanmoy Deb. 59-68
• Practical Implications of New Results in Conservation of Optimizer PerformanceThomas M. English. 69-78
• Large Derivations, Evolutionary Computation and Comparisons of AlgorithmsOlivier François. 79-88
• On the Choice of the Mutation Probability for the (1+1) EAThomas Jansen, Ingo Wegener. 89-98
• The Genetic Code-Like Transformations and Their Effect on Learning FunctionsHillol Kargupta. 99-108
• Perturbation Theory for Evolutionary Algorithms: Towards an Estimation of Convergence SpeedYann Landrin-Schweitzer, Evelyne Lutton. 109-118
• Statistical Characteristics of Evolution StrategiesYoshiyuki Matsumura, Kazuhiro Ohkura, Kanji Ueda. 119-128
• Consensus Sequence Plots and Error Thresholds: Tools for Visualising the Structure of Fitness LandscapesGabriela Ochoa. 129-138
• Experiments with Tuneable Fitness LandscapesColin R. Reeves. 139-148
• Introducing a New Persistence MeasureOliver Sharpe. 149-158
• An Analysis of Dynamic Severity and Population SizeKarsten Weicker. 159-168
• Functions as Permutations: Regarding No Free Lunch, Walsh Analysis and Summary StatisticsL. Darrell Whitley. 169-178
• Distributed Hybrid Genetic Programming for Learning Boolean FunctionsStefan Droste, Dominic Heutelbeck, Ingo Wegener. 181-190
• Genetic Programming with Dynamic Fitness for a Remote Sensing ApplicationCyril Fonlupt, Denis Robilliard. 191-200
• Genetic Programming Bloat without SemanticsWilliam B. Langdon, Wolfgang Banzhaf. 201-210
• Genetic Programming and Domain Knowledge: Beyond the Limitations of Grammar-Guided Machine DiscoveryAlain Ratle, Michèle Sebag. 211-220
• Polymorphy and Hybridization in Genetically Programmed NetworksArlindo Silva, Ana Neves, Ernesto Costa. 221-230
• Building Optimal Committees of Genetic ProgramsByoung-Tak Zhang, Je-Gun Joung. 231-240
• Distributed Simulated Annealing for Job Shop SchedulingAndreas Alexander Albrecht, Uwe Der, Kathleen Steinhöfel, Chak-Kuen Wong. 243-252
• Anticipation in Dynamic Optimization: The Scheduling CaseJürgen Branke, Dirk C. Mattfeld. 253-262
• Multirecombinated Evolutionary Algorithms for the Flow Shop Scheduling ProblemSusana C. Esquivel, Federico Zuppa, Raúl Héctor Gallard. 263-272
• GA Based on the UV-Structure Hypothesis and Its Application to JSPKokolo Ikeda, Shigenobu Kobayashi. 273-282
• Neighbourhood Based Robustness Applied to Tardiness and Total Flowtime Job ShopsMikkel T. Jensen. 283-292
• Solving Extended Hybrid-Flow-Shop Problems Using Active Schedule Generation and Genetic AlgorithmsMartin Kreutz, Detlef Hanke, Stefan Gehlen. 293-302
• A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for the Static Job Shop Scheduling ProblemManuel Vázquez, L. Darrell Whitley. 303-312
• An Empirical Study on GAs "Without Parameters"Thomas Bäck, A. E. Eiben, Nikolai A. L. van der Vaart. 315-324
• Using Dynastic Exploring Recombination to Promote Diversity in Genetic SearchCarlos Cotta, José M. Troya. 325-334
• Adaptic Control of the Mutation Probability by Fuzzy Logic ControllersFrancisco Herrera, Manuel Lozano. 335-344
• A Comparison of Two Representations for the Fixed Charge Transportation ProblemJens Gottlieb, Christoph Eckert. 345-354
• Invariance, Self-Adaptation and Correlated Mutations and Evolution StrategiesNikolaus Hansen. 355-364
• Theoretical Analysis of Simplex Crossover for Real-Coded Genetic AlgorithmsTakahide Higuchi, Shigeyoshi Tsutsui, Masayuki Yamamura. 365-374
• Applying Self-Organised Criticality to Evolutionary AlgorithmsThiemo Krink, Peter Rickers, René Thomsen. 375-384
• Genetic Algorithms, Clustering, and the Breaking of SymmetryMartin Pelikan, David E. Goldberg. 385-394
• Pruefer Numbers and Genetic Algorithms: A Lesson on How the Low Locality of an Encoding Can Harm the Performance of GAsFranz Rothlauf, David E. Goldberg. 395-404
• Median-Selection for Parallel Steady-State Evolution StrategiesJürgen Wakunda, Andreas Zell. 405-414
• The Origination of Diversity by Adaptive ClusteringN. Walton, G. D. Smith. 415-424
• Symbiotic Combination as an Alternative to Sexual Recombination in Genetic AlgorithmsRichard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack. 425-434
• Island Model Cooperating with Speciation for Multimodal OptimizationMourad Bessaou, Alain Pétrowski, Patrick Siarry. 437-446
• Optimizing through Co-evolutionary AvalanchesStefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Grigni. 447-456
• Evolution of Altruism in Viscous Populations: Effects of Altruism on the Evolution of Migrating BehaviorPaul den Dulk, Martijn Brinkers. 457-466
• A Game-Theoretic Approach to the Simple Coevolutionary AlgorithmSevan G. Ficici, Jordan B. Pollack. 467-476
• The Number of People with Whom a Man InteractsMasao Kubo, Hiroshi Satoh, Yuichiro Inoue, Kimitaka Uno, Akira Namatame. 477-486
• NK-Landscapes as Test Functions for Evaluation of Host-Parasite AlgorithmsBjörn Olsson. 487-496
• Towards Balanced CoevolutionJan Paredis. 497-506
• Spatial Games with Adaptive Tit-For-TatsElpida Tzafestas. 507-516
• Competitive Segmentation: A Struggle for Image SpaceCor J. Veenman, Marcel J. T. Reinders, Eric Backer. 517-526
• An Adaptive Algorithm for Constrained Optimization ProblemsSana Ben Hamida, Marc Schoenauer. 529-538
• Test-Case Generator ::::TCG-2:::: for Nonlinear Parameter OptimisationMartin Schmidt, Zbigniew Michalewicz. 539-548
• Solving CSP Instances Beyond the Phase Transition Using Stochastic Search AlgorithmsLuk Schoofs, Bart Naudts. 549-558
• Steady-State Evolutionary Path Planning, Adaptive Replacement, and Hyper-DiversityGerry V. Dozier. 561-570
• Optimization of Noisy Fitness Functions by Means of Genetic Algorithms Using History of SearchYasuhito Sano, Hajime Kita. 571-580
• An Efficient Random Number Generation Architecture for Hardware Parallel Genetic AlgorithmsMarc Bright, Brian Turton. 583-588
• An Integrated On-Line Learning System for Evolving Programmable Logic Array ControllersYong Liu, Masaya Iwata, Tetsuya Higuchi, Didier Keymeulen. 589-598
• Selection and Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial OptimizationArnaud Berny. 601-610
• Ant Colony Optimization for the Total Weighted Tardiness ProblemMatthijs den Besten, Thomas Stützle, Marco Dorigo. 611-620
• Adaptive Fitness Functions for the Satisfiability ProblemJens Gottlieb, Nico Voss. 621-630
• Large-Scale Permutation Optimization with the Ordering Messy Genetic AlgorithmDimitri Knjazew, David E. Goldberg. 631-640
• A Hybrid GA for the Edge-Biconnectivity Augmentation ProblemIvana Ljubic, Günther R. Raidl, Jozef Kratica. 641-650
• A Temporal Representation for GA and TSPIan Mitchell, Philip Pocknell. 651-660
• A Comparison of Nature Inspired Heuristics on the Traveling Salesman ProblemThomas Stützle, Andreas Grün, Sebastian Linke, Marco Rüttger. 661-670
• A Genetic Algorithm for VLSI FloorplanningChristine L. Valenzuela, Pearl Y. Wang. 671-680
• Scalability and Efficiency of Genetic Algorithms for Geometrical ApplicationsSteven van Dijk, Dirk Thierens, Mark de Berg. 683-692
• Genetic Optimization of the EPR Spectral Parameters: Algorithm Implementation and Preliminary ResultsBogdan Filipic, Janez Strancar. 693-701
• Fitting Fluorescence Spectra with Genetic AlgorithmsJos A. Hageman, Ron Wehrens, René de Gelder, W. L. Meerts, Lutgarde M. C. Buydens. 702-711
• Real-Coded Adaptive Range Genetic Algorithm Applied to Transonic Wing OptimizationAkira Oyama, Shigeru Obayashi, Takashi Nakamura. 712-721
• Stream Cyphers with One- and Two-Dimensional Cellular AutomataMarco Tomassini, Mathieu Perrenoud. 722-731
• Investigating Generalization in the Anticipatory Classifier SystemMartin Butz, David E. Goldberg, Wolfgang Stolzmann. 735-744
• A New Bootstrapping Method to Improve Classification Performance in Learning Classifier SystemsJohn H. Holmes, Dennis R. Durbin, Flaura K. Winston. 745-754
• Towards Automatic Domain Knowledge Extraction for Evolutionary HeuristicsMárk Jelasity. 755-764
• Expanding from Discrete to Continuous Estimation of Distribution Algorithms: The IDEAPeter A. N. Bosman, Dirk Thierens. 767-776
• A New Genetic Algorithms Working on State Domain Order StatisticsDaniel Delahaye, Stephane Puechmorel. 777-786
• A Factorized Distribution Algorithm Using Single Connected Bayesian NetworksAlberto Ochoa, Heinz Mühlenbein, Marta Soto. 787-796
• Optimization as Side-Effect of Evolving Allelopathic DiversityLudo Pagie, Paulien Hogeweg. 797-806
• Reaction-Diffusion Model of a Honeybee Colony s Foraging BehaviourValery Tereshko. 807-816
• A Religion-Based Spatial Model for Evolutionary AlgorithmsRené Thomsen, Peter Rickers, Thiemo Krink. 817-826
• Bayesian Evolutionary Optimization Using Helmholtz MachinesByoung-Tak Zhang, Soo-Yong Shin. 827-836
• The Pareto Envelope-Based Selection Algorithm for Multi-objective OptimisationDavid Corne, Joshua D. Knowles, Martin J. Oates. 839-848
• A Fast Elitist Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm for Multi-objective Optimisation: NSGA-IIKalyanmoy Deb, Samir Agrawal, Amrit Pratap, T. Meyarivan. 849-858
• Mechanical Component Design for Multiple Objectives Using Elitist Non-dominated Sorting GAKalyanmoy Deb, Amrit Pratap, Subrajyoti Moitra. 859-868
• On the Assessment of Multiobjective Approaches to the Adaptive Distributed Database Management ProblemJoshua D. Knowles, David Corne, Martin J. Oates. 869-878
• A Hierarchical Genetic Algorithm Using Multiple Models for OptimizationMourad Sefrioui, Jacques Périaux. 879-888
• Take It EASEAPierre Collet, Evelyne Lutton, Marc Schoenauer, Jean Louchet. 891-901
• Evolutionary Computation Visualization: Application to G-PROPGustavo Romero, Maribel García Arenas, Francisco Javier García Castellano, Pedro A. Castillo Valdivieso, J. Carpio, Juan J. Merelo Guervós, Alberto Prieto, Víctor Manuel Rivas Santos. 902-912