| Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - Ppsn VII: 7th International Conference, Granada, Spain, September 7-11, 2002, Proceedings 2002 Edition Contributor(s): Merelo, Juan J. (Editor), Adamidis, Panagiotis (Editor), Beyer, Hans-Georg (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3540441395 ISBN-13: 9783540441397 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Systems Architecture - Distributed Systems & Computing - Computers | Programming - Algorithms - Medical |
| Dewey: 004.35 |
| LCCN: 2002030463 |
| Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Physical Information: 1.92" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (2.95 lbs) 954 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: We are proud to introduce the proceedings of the Seventh International C- ference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, PPSN VII, held in Granada, Spain, on 7-11 September 2002. PPSN VII was organized back-to-back with the Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA) conference, which took place in Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain, in the preceding week. ThePPSNseriesofconferencesstartedinDortmund, Germany 1].Fromthat pioneering meeting, the event has been held biennially, in Brussels, Belgium 2], Jerusalem, Israel 3], Berlin, Germany 4], Amsterdam, The Netherlands 5], and Paris, France 6]. During the Paris conference, several bids to host PPSN 2002 were put forward; it was decided that the conference would be held in Granada with Juan J. Merelo Guerv os as General Chairman. The scienti?c content of the PPSN conference focuses on problem-solving paradigms gleaned from natural models, with an obvious emphasis on those that display an innate parallelism, such as evolutionary algorithms and ant-colony optimization algorithms. The majority of the papers, however, concentrate on evolutionary and hybrid algorithms, as is shown in the contents of this book and itspredecessors.Thiseditionoftheconferenceproceedingshasalargesectionon applications, betheytoclassicalproblemsortoreal-worldengineeringproblems, which shows how bioinspired algorithms are extending their use in the realms of business and enterprise. |