Evolutionary Computation (EC) deals with problem solving, optimization, and machine learning techniques inspired by principles of natural evolution and - netics. Just from this basic de?nition, it is clear that one of the main features of theresearchcommunityinvolvedinthestudyofitstheoryandinitsapplications is multidisciplinarity. For this reason, EC has been able to draw the attention of an ever-increasing number of researchers and practitioners in several ?elds. In its 6-year-long activity, EvoNet, the European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing, has been the natural reference and incubator for that multifaceted community. EvoNet has provided logistic and material support for thosewhowerealreadyinvolvedinECbut,inthe?rstplace,ithashadacritical role in favoring the signi?cant growth of the EC community and its interactions with longer-established ones. The main instrument that has made this possible has been the series of events, ?rst organized in 1998, that have spanned over both theoretical and practical aspects of EC. Ever since 1999, the present format, in which the EvoWorkshops, a collection of workshops on the most application-oriented aspects of EC, act as satellites of a core event, has proven to be very successful and very representative of the multi-disciplinarity of EC. Up to 2003, the core was represented by EuroGP, the main European event dedicated to Genetic Programming. EuroGP has been joined as the main event in 2004 by EvoCOP, formerly part of EvoWorkshops, which has become the European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization.
Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Günther R. Raidl
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Parma,
Stefano Cagnoni
Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Jürgen Branke
School of Mathematical and Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
David Wolfe Corne
Institute of Computer Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Rolf Drechsler
Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany
Yaochu Jin
Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Colin G. Johnson
CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Polo II of the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Penousal Machado
ICIS, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Elena Marchiori
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Franz Rothlauf
School of Computing Sciences, UEA Norwich, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
George D. Smith
Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Giovanni Squillero
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Applications of Evolutionary Computing
Book Subtitle: EvoWorkshops 2004: EvoBIO, EvoCOMNET, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoMUSART, and EvoSTOC, Coimbra, Portugal, April 5-7, 2004, Proceedings
Editors: Günther R. Raidl, Stefano Cagnoni, Jürgen Branke, David Wolfe Corne, Rolf Drechsler, Yaochu Jin, Colin G. Johnson, Penousal Machado, Elena Marchiori, Franz Rothlauf, George D. Smith, … Giovanni Squillero