Table of Contents:
  • 1. Artificial evolution: how and why?
  • 2. Adaptive niching via coevolutionary sharing
  • 3. Representation issues in neighbourhood search and evolutionary algorithms
  • 4. Gene expression: the missing link in evolutionary computation
  • 5. Immunized artificial systems - concepts and applications
  • 6. Designing electronic circuits using evolutionary algorithms arithmetic circuits: a case study
  • 7. Evolutionary computing for conceptual and detailed design
  • 8. Cam shape optimization by genetic algorithms
  • 9. Evolutionary algorithms: applications at the Informatik Center Dortmund
  • 10. Evolutionary learning processes for data analysis in electrical engineering applications
  • 11. Ga multiple objective optimization strategies for electromagnetic backscattering
  • 12. Pareto genetic algorithm for aerodynamic design using the Navier-Stokes equations
  • 13. GA coupled with computationally expensive simulations: tools to improve efficiency
  • 14. Coupling genetic algorithms and gradient based optimization techniques
  • 15. Evolutionary synthesis of control policies for manufacturing systems
  • 16. Parametric and non-parametric identification of macro-mechanical models
  • 17. Evolutionary mobile robotics
  • 18. Nonlinear system identification by means of evolutionary optimised neural networks.