Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization 6th European Conference, EvoCOP 2006, Budapest, Hungary, April 10-12, 2006, Proceedings

Hybrid Genetic Algorithm Within Branch-and-Cut for the Minimum Graph Bisection Problem.- The Trade Off Between Diversity and Quality for Multi-objective Workforce Scheduling.- Evolving the Structure of the Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms.- A Tabu Search Algorithm for Optimization of Gas Distribution Networks.- Design of a Retail Chain Stocking Up Policy with a Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm.- Parametrized GRASP Heuristics for Three-Index Assignment.- A Memetic Algorithm with Bucket Elimination for the Still Life Problem.- Effects of Scale-Free and Small-World Topologies on Binary Coded Self-adaptive CEA.- Particle Swarm for the Traveling Salesman Problem.- Hierarchical Cellular Genetic Algorithm.- Improving Graph Colouring Algorithms and Heuristics Using a Novel Representation.- Minimizing Makespan on a Single Batch Processing Machine with Non-identical Job Sizes: A Hybrid Genetic Approach.- A Relation-Algebraic View on Evolutionary Algorithms for Some Graph Problems.- New Computational Results for the Nurse Scheduling Problem: A Scatter Search Algorithm.- Fast EAX Algorithm Considering Population Diversity for Traveling Salesman Problems.- A Memetic Algorithm with Population Management (MA|PM) for the Capacitated Location-Routing Problem.- The Core Concept for the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem.- Multiobjective Scheduling of Jobs with Incompatible Families on Parallel Batch Machines.- A Memetic Algorithm for the Biobjective Minimum Spanning Tree Problem.- A Comparative Study of Ant Colony Optimization and Reactive Search for Graph Matching Problems.- Divide-and-Evolve: A New Memetic Scheme for Domain-Independent Temporal Planning.- A Variable Neighbourhood Search Algorithm for Job Shop Scheduling Problems.- An Efficient Hybrid Search Algorithm for Various Optimization Problems.- A Hybrid VNS/Tabu Search Algorithm for Apportioning the European Parliament.