| Computational Brittleness and the Evolution of Computer Viruses | p. 2 |
| Evolutionary Computing in Multi-Agent Environments: Speciation and Symbiogenesis | p. 12 |
| Evolution Strategies with Subjective Selection | p. 22 |
| Emergent Cooperation for Multiple Agents Using Genetic Programming | p. 32 |
| Evolution Programs Evolved | p. 42 |
| Encoding Scheme Issues for Open-Ended Artificial Evolution | p. 52 |
| Hardware Evolution at Function Level | p. 62 |
| Coevolutionary Life-Time Learning | p. 72 |
| Genetic Programs and Co-Evolution: Developing Robust General Purpose Controllers Using Local Mating in 2-Dimensional Populations | p. 81 |
| Self-Assemblage of Gene Nets in Evolution via Recruiting of New Netters | p. 91 |
| A Survey of Intron Research in Genetics | p. 101 |
| Analytical and Numerical Investigations of Evolutionary Algorithms in Continuous Spaces | p. 112 |
| On the Asymptotic Behavior of Multirecombinant Evolution Strategies | p. 122 |
| Are Long Path Problems Hard for Genetic Algorithms? | p. 134 |
| Random Tree Generation for Genetic Programming | p. 144 |
| Implicit Formae in Genetic Algorithms | p. 154 |
| A Probabilistic Database Approach to the Analysis of Genetic Algorithms | p. 164 |
| Mean Field Analysis of Tournament Selection on a Random Manifold | p. 174 |
| From Recombination of Genes to the Estimation of Distributions: I. Binary Parameters | p. 178 |
| From Recombination of Genes to the Estimation of Distributions: II. Continuous Parameters | p. 188 |
| Searching in the Presence of Noise | p. 198 |
| The Density of States - A Measure of the Difficulty of Optimisation Problems | p. 208 |
| On Interactive Evolutionary Algorithms and Stochastic Mealy Automata | p. 218 |
| The Influence of Different Coding Schemes on the Computational Complexity of Genetic Algorithms in Function Optimization | p. 227 |
| An Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood Size and Shape on Local Selection Algorithms | p. 236 |
| Evolutionary Computation at the Edge of Feasibility | p. 245 |
| Dimensional Analysis of Allele-Wise Mixing Revisited | p. 255 |
| Gaussian Diffusion in a Simple Genetic Algorithm | p. 266 |
| Erroneous Truncation Selection - A Breeder's Decision Making Perspective | p. 276 |
| New Crossover Methods for Sequencing Problems | p. 290 |
| The Effect of Extensive Use of the Mutation Operator on Generalization in Genetic Programming Using Sparse Data Sets | p. 300 |
| On Permutation Representations for Scheduling Problems | p. 310 |
| Multi-Parernt's Niche: n-ary Crossovers on NK-Landscapes | p. 319 |
| A Preliminary Investigation into Directed Mutations in Evolutionary Algorithms | p. 329 |
| Heuristic Crossovers for Real-Coded Genetic Algorithms Based on Fuzzy Connectives | p. 336 |
| Are Evolutionary Algorithms Improved by Large Mutations? | p. 346 |
| Mutation by Imitation in Boolean Evolution Strategies | p. 356 |
| Formal Algorithms + Formal Representations = Search Strategies | p. 366 |
| A Genetic Algorithm with Variable Range of Local Search for Tracking Changing Environments | p. 376 |
| An Evolution Strategy with Adaptation of the Step Sizes by a Variance Function | p. 388 |
| Every Niching Method has its Niche: Fitness Sharing and Implicit Sharing Compared | p. 398 |
| Effects of Isolation in a Distributed Population Genetic Algorithm | p. 408 |
| Self-Adaptive Genetic Algorithm for Numeric Functions | p. 420 |
| Niche Search: An Evolutionary Algorithm for Global Optimisation | p. 430 |
| Adaptive Parameterised Evolutionary Systems: Self Adaptive Recombination and Mutation in a Genetic Algorithm | p. 441 |
| Obtaining Multiple Distinct Solutions with Genetic Algorithm Niching Methods | p. 451 |
| Cost Based Operator Rate Adaption: An Investigation | p. 461 |
| Genetic Algorithms and Relational Landscapes | p. 472 |
| IOGA: An Instance-Oriented Genetic Algorithm | p. 482 |
| Explicit Filtering of Building Blocks for Genetic Algorithms | p. 494 |
| Multi-Objective Optimization by Means of the Thermodynamical Genetic Algorithm | p. 504 |
| Adaption to a Changing Environment by Means of the Thermodynamical Genetic Algorithm | p. 513 |
| The Development of a Dual-Agent Strategy for Efficient Search Across Whole System Engineering Design Hierarchies | p. 523 |
| A Parallel Cellular Genetic Algorithm Used in Finite Element Simulation | p. 533 |
| A Robust Solution Searching Scheme in Genetic Search | p. 543 |
| Solving MASTER MIND Using GAs and Simulated Annealing: A Case of Dynamic Constraint Optimization | p. 554 |
| Evolving Compact Solutions in Genetic Programming: A Case Study | p. 564 |
| Climbing up NP-Hard Hills | p. 574 |
| On the Performance Assessment and Comparison of Stochastic Multiobjective Optimizers | p. 584 |
| Paginating the Generalized Newspaper - A Comparison of Simulated Annealing and a Heuristic Method | p. 594 |
| A Comparison of Optimization Techniques for Integrated Manufacturing Planning and Scheduling | p. 604 |
| A Comparison of Search Techniques on a Wing-Box Optimisation Problem | p. 614 |
| A Comparative Study of Evolutionary Algorithms for On-Line Parameter Tracking | p. 624 |
| Modeling Urban Growth by Cellular Automata | p. 636 |
| Democratic Optimization for Discrete and Continuous Systems | p. 646 |
| A Study of Some Properties of Ant-Q | p. 656 |
| Immunoid: An Immunological Approach to Decentralized Behavior Arbitration of Autonomous Mobile Robots | p. 666 |
| Parallelizable Evolutionary Dynamics Principles for Solving the Maximum Clique Problem | p. 676 |
| Significance of Locality and Selection Pressure in the Grand Deluge Evolutionary Algorithm | p. 686 |
| Parallel Computing with DNA: Toward the Anti-Universal Machine | p. 696 |
| Tackling the "Curse of Dimensionality" of Radial Basis Function Neural Networks Using a Genetic Algorithm | p. 710 |
| A Three-Stage Method for Designing Genetic Fuzzy Systems by Learning from Examples | p. 720 |
| Learning Heuristics for OBDD Minimization by Evolutionary Algorithms | p. 730 |
| Improving the Generalization Performance of Multi-Layer-Perceptrons with Population-Based Incremental Learning | p. 740 |
| Robust GP in Robot Learning | p. 751 |
| A Pattern Recognition System Using Evolvable Hardware | p. 761 |
| Topology Design of Feedforward Neural Networks by Genetic Algorithms | p. 771 |
| An Evolution Strategy for On-line Optimisation of Dynamic Objective Functions | p. 781 |
| Exploiting Competing Subpopulations for Automatic Generation of Test Sequences for Digital Circuits | p. 792 |
| Constraint Handling in Evolutionary Search: A Case Study of the Frequency Assignment | p. 801 |
| An Application of Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks to Scheduling Power Generating Systems | p. 811 |
| Evolutionary Algorithms for the Calculation of Electron Distributions in Si-MOSFETs | p. 819 |
| Refueling of a Nuclear Power Plant: Comparison of a Naive and a Specialized Mutation Operator | p. 829 |
| Genetic Algorithms Applied to the Physical Design of VLSI Circuits: A Survey | p. 839 |
| Stochastic Methods for Transistor Size Optimization of CMOS VLSI Circuits | p. 849 |
| An Adaptive Parallel Genetic Algorithm for VLSI-Layout Optimization | p. 859 |
| Genetic Algorithms for Protocol Validation | p. 870 |
| Constraint Handling for the Fault Coverage Code Generation Problem: An Inductive Evolutionary Approach | p. 880 |
| New Genetic Local Search Operators for the Traveling Salesman Problem | p. 890 |
| An Evolutionary Approach to Hardware/Software Partitioning | p. 900 |
| Evolutionary Air Traffic Flow Management for Large 3D-problems | p. 910 |
| Genetic-Based Dynamic Load Balancing: Implementation and Evaluation | p. 920 |
| Production Scheduling with Genetic Algorithms and Simulation | p. 930 |
| Network Optimization Using Evolutionary Strategies | p. 940 |
| Co-evolving Parallel Random Number Generators | p. 950 |
| Scheduling by Genetic Local Search with Multi-Step Crossover | p. 960 |
| Finding the Conformation of Organic Molecules with Genetic Algorithms | p. 972 |
| Investigating a Parallel Breeder Genetic Algorithm on the Inverse Aerodynamic Design | p. 982 |
| An Evolutionary Design f - [theta] Lenses | p. 992 |
| Optimization of Heat Exchanger Networks by Means of Evolution Strategies | p. 1002 |
| Industrial Plant Pipe-Route Optimisation with Genetic Algorithms | p. 1012 |
| An Evolutionary Algorithm for Design Optimization of Microsystems | p. 1022 |
| A Learning Classifier System for Three-Dimensional Shape Optimization | p. 1032 |
| Author Index | p. 1043 |
| Subject Index | p. 1047 |
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