This volume presents a collection of revised refereed papers selected from the contributions presented at the European Conference on Artificial Evolution, AE '95, held in Brest, France, in September 1995;

Evolution strategies: An alternative evolutionary algorithm.- An introduction to evolutionary programming.- An asymptotic theory for genetic algorithms.- Towards a genetic theory of easy and hard functions.- GAS, a concept on modeling species in genetic algorithms.- A genetic algorithm with parallel steady-state reproduction.- Induction-based control of genetic algorithms.- New multicriteria optimization method based on the use of a diploid genetic algorithm: Example of an industrial problem.- Lotka Volterra coevolution at the edge of chaos.- Evolution through cooperation: The Symbiotic Algorithm.- The artificial evolution of cooperation.- Immune system and fault-tolerant computing.- Modular genetic neural networks for 6-Legged locomotion.- An artificial life approach for the synthesis of autonomous agents.- How long does it take to evolve a neural net?.- Mixed IFS: Resolution of the inverse problem using genetic programming.- Interactive evolution for simulated natural evolution.- Building new tools for synthetic image animation by using evolutionary techniques.- A genetic algorithm with sharing for the detection of 2D geometric primitives in images.- A genetic algorithm to improve an Othello program.- A comparative study of a penalty function, a repair heuristic, and stochastic operators with the set-covering problem.- Study of genetic search for the Frequency Assignment Problem.- An application of evolutionary algorithms to the scheduling of robotic operations.- Genetic operators for two-dimentional shape optimization.- Air Traffic conflict resolution by Genetic Algorithms.- Optimizing hidden Markov models with a genetic algorithm.