TY - BOOK AU - AU - AU - AU - AU - AU - ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN IX: 9th International Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 9-13, 2006, Proceedings T2 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, SN - 9783540389910 AV - QA75.5-76.95 U1 - 004.0151 23 PY - 2006/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Computer science KW - Software engineering KW - Computer software KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Computer Science KW - Computation by Abstract Devices KW - Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity KW - Programming Techniques KW - Software Engineering KW - Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) KW - Processor Architectures N1 - Theory -- New Algorithms -- Applications -- Multi-objective Optimization -- Evolutionary Learning -- Representations, Operators, and Empirical Evaluation; ZDB-2-SCS; ZDB-2-LNC N2 - We are very pleased to present this LNCS volume, the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN IX). PPSNisoneofthemostrespectedandhighlyregardedconferenceseriesinevo- tionary computation and natural computing / computation. This biennial event was ?rst held in Dortmund in 1990, and then in Brussels (1992), Jerusalem (1994), Berlin (1996), Amsterdam (1998), Paris (2000), Granada (2002), and Birmingham(2004).PPSNcontinuestobetheconferenceofchoicebyresearchers all over the world, who value its high quality. We received 255 paper submissions this year. After an extensive peer review process involving more than 1000 reviews, the programme committee selected the top 106 papers for inclusion in this volume and, of course, for presentation at the conference. This represents an acceptance rate of 42%. The papers included in this volume cover a wide range of topics, from e- lutionary computation to swarm intelligence and from bio-inspired computing to real-world applications. They represent some of the latest and best research in evolutionary and natural computation. Following the PPSN tradition, all - pers at PPSN IX were presented as posters. There were 7 sessions: each session consisting of around 15 papers. For each session, we covered as wide a range of topics as possible so that participants with di?erent interests could ?nd some relevant papers in every session UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11844297 ER -