InhaltsangabeTheory.- On the Quality Gain of (1,?)-ES Under Fitness Noise.- Fitness Distributions and GA Hardness.- Experimental Supplements to the Theoretical Analysis of EAs on Problems from Combinatorial Optimization.- The Ising Model: Simple Evolutionary Algorithms as Adaptation Schemes.- Evolutionary Algorithms with On-the-Fly Population Size Adjustment.- Search Space Features Underlying the Performance of Stochastic Local Search Algorithms for MAX-SAT.- Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice.- A Reduced Markov Model of GAs Without the Exact Transition Matrix.- Expected Runtimes of a Simple Evolutionary Algorithm for the Multi-objective Minimum Spanning Tree Problem.- On the Importance of Information Speed in Structured Populations.- Estimating the Number of Solutions for SAT Problems.- Behavior of Evolutionary Algorithms in Chaotically Changing Fitness Landscapes.- Expected Rates of Building Block Discovery, Retention and Combination Under 1-Point and Uniform Crossover.- An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Multi-parent Crossover.- On the Use of a Non-redundant Encoding for Learning Bayesian Networks from Data with a GA.- Phase Transition Properties of Clustered Travelling Salesman Problem Instances Generated with Evolutionary Computation.- A Simple Two-Module Problem to Exemplify Building-Block Assembly Under Crossover.- Statistical Racing Techniques for Improved Empirical Evaluation of Evolutionary Algorithms.- New Algorithms.- LS-CMA-ES: A Second-Order Algorithm for Covariance Matrix Adaptation.- Learning Probabilistic Tree Grammars for Genetic Programming.- Sequential Sampling in Noisy Environments.- Evolutionary Continuous Optimization by Distribution Estimation with Variational Bayesian Independent Component Analyzers Mixture Model.- Spread of Vector Borne Diseases in a Population with Spatial Structure.- Hierarchical Genetic Algorithms.- Migration of Probability Models Instead of Individuals: An Alternative When Applying the Island Model to EDAs.- Comparison of Steady-State and Generational Evolution Strategies for Parallel Architectures.- Control of Bloat in Genetic Programming by Means of the Island Model.- Saving Resources with Plagues in Genetic Algorithms.- Evaluating the CMA Evolution Strategy on Multimodal Test Functions.- Exploring the Evolutionary Details of a Feasible-Infeasible Two-Population GA.- An Evolutionary Algorithm for the Maximum Weight Trace Formulation of the Multiple Sequence Alignment Problem.- A Novel Programmable Molecular Computing Method Based on Signaling Pathways Regulated by Rho-GTPases in Living MDCK Epithelial Mammalian Cells.- Empirical Investigations on Parallelized Linkage Identification.- The EAX Algorithm Considering Diversity Loss.- Topology-Oriented Design of Analog Circuits Based on Evolutionary Graph Generation.- A Mixed Bayesian Optimization Algorithm with Variance Adaptation.- A Swarm Intelligence Based VLSI Multiplication-and-Add Scheme.- Distribution Tree-Building Real-Valued Evolutionary Algorithm.- Optimization via Parameter Mapping with Genetic Programming.- Multi-cellular Development: Is There Scalability and Robustness to Gain?.- Constrained Evolutionary Optimization by Approximate Ranking and Surrogate Models.- Robust Parallel Genetic Algorithms with Re-initialisation.- Improving Evolutionary Algorithms with Multi-representation Island Models.- A Powerful New Encoding for Tree-Based Combinatorial Optimisation Problems.- Partially Evaluated Genetic Algorithm Based on Fuzzy c-Means Algorithm.- Applications.- Metaheuristics for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands.- AntHocNet: An Ant-Based Hybrid Routing Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- A Scatter Search Algorithm for the 3D Image Registration Problem.- A Hybrid GRASP - Evolutionary Algorithm Approach to Golomb Ruler Search.- Design of an Efficient Search Algorithm for P2P Networks Using Concepts from Natural Immune Systems.- A Novel Ant Algorithm for Solving the Minimum Broadcast Time Problem.- Designin