Subject Index
Adaption level 420
Adaptive optimization 1022
Adaptive machine 761
Adaptive mutation 356
Adaptive simulated annealing 198
Adding noise 543
Aerodynamic design 982
Air traffic control 910
Air traffic flow management 910
Ant colony optimization 656
Artificial evolution 52
Artificial life 2
Automatic discovery of functions 751
Automatic test pattern generation 792
Autonomous robot 666
Back propagation 72
Binary decision diagrams 730
Boolean variable 356
Breeder genetic algorithm 178, 188, 982
Building block 494
Cauchy distribution 346
Changing environment 504
Cellular automata 636
CHC algorithm 198
Chemical engineering 1002
Classification 300
Classifier system 1032
CMOS 849
Co-evolution 32, 72, 81
Coffee optimization 22
Combinatorial optimization 310, 574, 656, 859, 890
Combinatorics 554
Communication protocol 870
Component shape optimization 1032
Computer virus 2
Constrained optimization 245, 554, 910
Constraint handling 801, 880
Continuous search space 346
Convergence speed 227
Cooperative behavior 32
Crossover 290, 960
Crowding 451
Damped stepsize control 22
Darwinian evolution 174
Decentralized behavior 666
Deceptive problem 164
Decision errors 276
Democratic optimization 646
Density of states 208
Derandomized mutation 781
Design optimization 1022
Detour and cost optimization 940
Dimensional analysis 255
Dimensionality reduction 482
Directed mutation 329
Distributed population 408
Distributed system 920
Distributed genetic algorithm 604, 614
Distributed optimization 656
Dynamic logic 849
Dynamic load balancing 920
Encoding scheme 52
Engineering design 523
Ergodic reversible chains 164
ES-theory 122
Evolution 2, 91
Evolution programs 42
Evolution strategy 22, 356, 388, 781, 1002
Evolutionary algorithm 164, 218, 336, 366, 430, 574, 730, 801, 819, 829, 910
Evolutionary computation 482, 880
Evolutionary game theory 676
Evolutionary learning 398
Evolutionary strategy 346, 992
Evolvable hardware 62, 761
Exact results 174
Feature 482
{ lenses 992
Field programmable gate array 62, 761
Fine-grained evolutionary algorithms 236
Finite elements 533
Finite-state machines 870
Fitness landscape 208
Forma 154
Forma analysis 366
Fractal dimension 636
Frequency allocation problem 801
Frustrated problems 940
Fundamental theorem 164
Fuzzy connectives 336
Fuzzy logic controllers 720
Game theory 554
Gaussian process 266
Gene networks 91
Generalization 740
Genetic algorithm 22, 62, 81, 91, 101, 134, 154, 227, 266, 290, 319, 398, 430, 451, 472, 513, 523, 554, 720, 761, 771, 839, 849, 870, 930, 960, 972, 992, 1032
Genetic local search 890
Genetic programming 32, 81, 144, 300, 564, 751
Genetic representation 1002
Genetic search 543
Genetics 101
Global optimization 430
Hardware/Software partitioning 900
Heat exchanger 1002
Heuristic crossover operator 336
Heuristic method 594
Hillclimbing 22
Hybrid algorithm 574
Hybrid genetic algorithm 494
Implicit forma 154
Immune network 666
Integrated manufacturing 604
Interactive evolution 22
Interactive optimization 22, 218
Intron 101
Island model 972
Isolation 408
Job shop scheduling 310, 930
Learning 720, 730
Lens design 992
Life-time fitness evaluation 72
Life-time learning 72
Line search 198
Linkage 494
Local interaction 686
Local search 960
Local selection algorithm 236
Long path problem 134
Machine language 2 62
Marginal distribution 188
Maximum clique problem 676
Measure of difficulty 208
Mechanical engineering 1032
Microsystem 1022
Mixed strategy 940
Mixing 255
Mobile robotics 781
Molecular computing 696
Monte carlo 849
MOSFET 819
Mult-agent 12, 32, 523
Multi objective optimization 513, 584
Multi-parent recombination 319
Multirecombination 122
Mutation 300, 441
Neighborhood size 236
Neural network 710, 740, 761, 771
Niche 430
Niching 451, 972
NK-landscapes 319
NK model 646
Noise 198
Non-coding DNA 101
Non-coding segment 101
Non-stationary environment 376
Non-uniform cellular automata 950
Nuclear power plant 829
Numerical optimisation 420
On-line 376
Online adaptation 62
Optical multilayer system 646
Optimization 1022
Overlapping neighborhood 236
Packing problem 594
Pagination 594
Parallel algorithm 792, 859, 972
Parallelism 636
Parallelization 1022
Parameter tracking 624
Pareto-based ranking 513
Parsimony 564
Performance comparison 584
Permutation representation 310
Physical mutation operator 819
Pipe-network 22
Pipe-route 22
Planning 604
Point crossover 164
Population 1022
Population size 420
Population structure 1022
Population-based incremental learning 740
Power generating system 811
Precedence preservative crossover 310
Premature convergence 255
Principle of the minimal free energy 513
Probabilistic database 164
Programmable logic device 761
Projection 164
Radial basis function 710
Random bit climber 198
Random number generator 950
Random tree 144
Rate adaptation 461
Real-coded genetic algorithm 336
Recombination 22, 188, 441
Redundancy 564
Reinforcement learning 781
Relational database 164
Relational schema 472
Replicator 164, 676
Representation 154, 366
Response to selection 178, 188, 276
Reversible computation 696
Robot learning 751
Royal road function 472
Rugged landscape 174, 646
Saari's theorem 164
Scheduling 604, 811
Schema theorem 164
Schur-convexity 164
Search space reduction 880
Selection 164
Self-adaptation 420, 441
Self-organization 91, 636
Semiconductor device 819
Sequencing problem 290
Sharing 451
Silicon 819
Simple genetic algorithm 198
Simpson's paradox 164
Simulated annealing 22, 513, 554, 594
Spatially structured algorithm 686
Speciation 12, 398
SPICE 849
Spin glass 646
Steiner point 22
Stepsize adaptation 22, 388
Stochastic automata 218
Stochastic learning automata 920
Stochastic optimizer 584
Stochastic simulation 112
Strategy adaptation 859
Structural design optimization 614
Structure optimization 740
Subjective evaluation 22
Subjective selection 22
Symbiogenesis 12
Symbolic regression 564
Thermodynamical algorithm 504
Tile world 32
Time complexity 122
Timetabling 451
Topology design 771
Tournament selection 174
Tracking changing optima 376
Traveling salesman 646, 890
Truncation selection 276
Unit commitment 811
Univariate 178
Universal machine 696
Urban growth 636
Validation technique 870
VLSI 792, 849
VLSI circuit layout 839
VLSI partitioning 839
VLSI placement 839
VLSI design 859
Whole system 523