Application of Evolutionary Computation

Dear Colleagues,

Evolutionary Computation has been applied to a wide range of real-life problems, ranging from telecommunication networks to complex systems, finance and economics, games, image analysis, evolutionary music and art, parameter optimization, bioinformatics, scheduling, and logistics.

The aim of this Special Issue is to present a collection of studies describing the latest advances in techniques and applications of Genetic Algorithms, Evolution Strategies, Evolutionary Programming, Genetic Programming, Simulated Annealing, Ant Colony Optimization, and related techniques. Of particular interest is the application of these techniques to computationally difficult combinatorial problems.

We also encourage researchers to share their original work in the field of computational analysis of gene expression data. Topics of primary interest include, among others, the applications of:

• genetic algorithms;
• evolution strategies;
• evolutionary programming;
• memetic algorithms;
• genetic programming;
• ant colony optimization;
• co-evolutionary algorithms;
• artificial immune systems;
• particle swarm optimization; and
• classifier systems.
• evolutionary computation;
• soft computing;
• real-life applications.

Prof. Dr. Federico Divina
Prof. Dr. Francisco A. Gómez Vela
Guest Editors

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