Synopses & Reviews
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Artificial Evolution, AE '99, held in Dunkerque, France in November 1999. The 20 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing from initially more than 40 papers submitted. The book is divided in topical sections on genetic operators and theoretical models, applications, agents and cooperation, and heuristics and outlook.
Synopsis
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... However, AE remains as intended a small and friendly gathering, which will continue to be held every two years. Previous AE meets were held in Toulouse, Brest, and N DEGREES ?mes. This year, the hosting was done by the LIL (Laboratoire d'Informatique du Littoral) in the not-so-cold city of Dunkerque. The invited talk on "Fitness Landscapes and Evolutionary Algorithms" was delivered by Colin Reeves of Coventry University This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the conference. Twenty-seven papers were presented orally at the conference, selected from over 40 papers refereed by the program committee. After the conference, each p- sentation was reviewed and 20 papers were retained and revised for publication in this volume. The papers in this volume have been grouped into the following ?ve sections which more or less re?ect the organization of the oral presentations. 1. Invited Paper: C. Reeves brightly describes the state of the art in Fitness Landscapes.