This book introduces the new experimentalism in evolutionary computation, providing tools to understand algorithms and programs and their interaction with optim

Evolutionary computation has emerged as a major topic in the scientific community as many of its techniques have successfully been applied to solve problems in

Concentrates on developing intuition about evolutionary computation and problem solving skills and tool sets. Lots of applications and test problems, including

This book provides a collection of fourty articles containing new material on both theoretical aspects of Evolutionary Computing (EC), and demonstrating the use

The first complete overview of evolutionary computing, the collective name for a range of problem-solving techniques based on principles of biological evolution