Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization 7th European Conference, EvoCOP 2007, Valencia, Spain, April 11-13, 2007, Proceedings

A New Local Search Algorithm for the DNA Fragment Assembly Problem.- A Hybrid Immune-Based System for the Protein Folding Problem.- A Genetic Algorithm for the Resource Renting Problem with Minimum and Maximum Time Lags.- A Probabilistic Beam Search Approach to the Shortest Common Supersequence Problem.- Genetic Algorithms for Word Problems in Partially Commutative Groups.- A GRASP and Branch-and-Bound Metaheuristic for the Job-Shop Scheduling.- Reducing the Size of Traveling Salesman Problem Instances by Fixing Edges.- Iterated k-Opt Local Search for the Maximum Clique Problem.- Accelerating Local Search in a Memetic Algorithm for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem.- Evolutionary Algorithms for Real-World Instances of the Automatic Frequency Planning Problem in GSM Networks.- A New Metaheuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Split Demands.- Generation of Tree Decompositions by Iterated Local Search.- Edge Assembly Crossover for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem.- Tackling the Container Loading Problem: A Hybrid Approach Based on Integer Linear Programming and Genetic Algorithms.- A Population-Based Local Search for Solving a Bi-objective Vehicle Routing Problem.- Combining Lagrangian Decomposition with an Evolutionary Algorithm for the Knapsack Constrained Maximum Spanning Tree Problem.- Exact/Heuristic Hybrids Using rVNS and Hyperheuristics for Workforce Scheduling.- An Analysis of Problem Difficulty for a Class of Optimisation Heuristics.- A New Grouping Genetic Algorithm for the Quadratic Multiple Knapsack Problem.- A Hybrid Method for Solving Large-Scale Supply Chain Problems.- Crossover Operators for the Car Sequencing Problem.