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

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2007, held in Valencia, Spain in April 2007. The 21 revised full papers cover evolutionary algorithms as well as various other metaheuristics, like scatter search, tabu search, memetic algorithms, variable neighborhood search, ant colony optimization, and particle swarm optimization algorithms.