The Arti?cial Evolution conference was originally conceived as a forum for the French-speaking Evolutionary Computation community, but has of late been acquiring an European audience, with several papers from Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain...

Invited Paper.- Fitness Landscapes and Evolutionary Algorithms.- Genetic Operators and Theoretical Models.- On the Effectivity of Evolutionary Algorithms for the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem.- Characterizing Locality in Decoder-Based EAs for the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem.- Evolutionary Case-Based Design.- Shorter Fitness Preserving Genetic Programs.- Modeling and Analysis of Genetic Algorithm with Tournament Selection.- Applications.- On Generating HTML Style Sheets with an Interactive Genetic Algorithm Based on Gene Frequencies.- Problem-Specific Representations for Heterogeneous Materials Design.- A Hybrid Evolution Strategy for Mixed Discrete Continuous Constrained Problems.- Lamarckian vs Darwinian Evolution for the Adaptation to Acoustical Environment Change.- From Hough to Darwin: An Individual Evolutionary Strategy Applied to Artificial Vision.- A New Genetic Algorithm for the Optimal Communication Spanning Tree Problem.- Agents - Cooperation.- Studies on Dynamics in the Classical Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma with Few Strategies.- An Adaptive Agent Model for Generator Company Bidding in the UK Power Pool.- Evolution of Cooperation within a Behavior-Based Perspective: Confronting Nature and Animats.- Evolving Behavioural Animation Systems.- Heuristics - Outlooks.- Co-operative Improvement for a Combinatorial Optimization Algorithm.- Landscapes and the Maximal Constraint Satisfaction Problem.- Synthetic Neutrality for Artificial Evolution.- Two Evolutionary Approaches to Design Phase Plate for Tailoring Focal-Plane Irradiance Profile.- A Shepherd and a Sheepdog to Guide Evolutionary Computation?.

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