Theoretical foundations of evolutionary computation

摘要

In recent decades, evolutionary algorithms have been used successfully to solve a wide range of optimization problems. However, a review of the literature suggests that the theoretical works on evolutionary algorithms are still lagging behind their applications. This special issue features three of the latest theoretical contributions, each representing a different theoretical aspect of evolutionary algorithms. These three papers were initially selected from SEAL'06 and further extended from the authors' original works. The extended papers were again rigorously reviewed in two rounds by at least three anonymous reviewers.