This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of five application-oriented workshops held concurrently as EvoWorkshops 2001 in Como, Italy in April 2001.The 52 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected out of 75 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on graph problems, Knapsack problems, ant algorithms, assignment problems, evolutionary algorithms analysis, permutative problems, aeronautics, image ...

The last few decades have seen a new era of artificial intelligence focusing on emulating humans, either in their behaviour or in their neurophysiology. Computational intelligence is a well-established paradigm, where new theories with a sound biological understanding have been evolving. This volume is a rare collection of 12 chapters compiling the latest state-of-the-art research in the area of intelligent paradigms authored by the world ...

The human being aspires to the best possible performance. Both individuals and enterprises are looking for optimal - in other words, the best possible - solutions for situations or problems they face. Most of these problems can be expressed in mathematical terms, and so the methods of optimization undoubtedly render a significant aid.
In cases where there are many local optima; intricate constraints; mixed-type variables; or noisy, ...