Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization [electronic resource] : 4th European Conference, EvoCOP 2004, Coimbra, Portugal, April 5-7, 2004, Proceedings /

EvoCOP Contributions -- Mutation Multiplicity in a Panmictic Two-Strategy Genetic Algorithm -- Solving the Vehicle Routing Problem by Using Cellular Genetic Algorithms -- Landscape Regularity and Random Walks for the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem -- A Comparison of Adaptive Operator Scheduling Methods on the Traveling Salesman Problem -- AntPacking – An Ant Colony Optimization Approach for the One-Dimensional Bin Packing Problem -- Scatter Search and Memetic Approaches to the Error Correcting Code Problem -- A Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm for Solving the Register Allocation Problem -- Parallel Ant Systems for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem -- A Hierarchical Social Metaheuristic for the Max-Cut Problem -- On the Structure of Sequential Search: Beyond “No Free Lunch” -- Dealing with Solution Diversity in an EA for Multiple Objective Decision Support – A Case Study -- A Study into Ant Colony Optimisation, Evolutionary Computation and Constraint Programming on Binary Constraint Satisfaction Problems -- Binary Merge Model Representation of the Graph Colouring Problem -- Hardness Prediction for the University Course Timetabling Problem -- Hybrid Estimation of Distribution Algorithm for Multiobjective Knapsack Problem -- On the Use of Path Relinking for the ? – Hub Median Problem -- Solving a Real-World Glass Cutting Problem -- Designing Reliable Communication Networks with a Genetic Algorithm Using a Repair Heuristic -- Improving Vehicle Routing Using a Customer Waiting Time Colony -- New Benchmark Instances for the QAP and the Experimental Analysis of Algorithms -- Improving Edge Recombination through Alternate Inheritance and Greedy Manner -- Clustering Nominal and Numerical Data: A New Distance Concept for a Hybrid Genetic Algorithm -- On Search Space Symmetry inPartitioning Problems.