Artificial evolution. 6th international conference, evolution artificielle, EA 2003, Marseille, France, October 27--30, 2003. Revised selected papers. (Q1884187)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. The preceding conference has been reviewed (see Zbl 0990.00064). Indexed articles: \textit{Platel, Michael Defoin; Verel, Sebastien; Clergue, Manuel; Collard, Philippe}, From royal road to epistatic road for variable length evolution algorithm, 3-14 [Zbl 1098.68668] \textit{Nicolau, Miguel; Auger, Anne; Ryan, Conor}, Functional dependency and degeneracy: Detailed analysis of the GAuGE system, 15-26 [Zbl 1098.68666] \textit{Grosset, Laurent; Le Riche, Rodolphe; Haftka, Raphael T.}, A study of the effects of dimensionality on stochastic hill climbers and estimation of distribution algorithms, 27-38 [Zbl 1098.68658] \textit{Aupetit, Sebastien; Liardet, Pierre; Slimane, Mohamed}, Evolutionary search for binary strings with low aperiodic auto-correlations, 39-50 [Zbl 1098.68639] \textit{Puechmorel, Stephane; Delahaye, Daniel}, Order statistics in artificial evolution, 51-62 [Zbl 1098.68669] \textit{Drugan, Mădălina M.; Thierens, Dirk}, Evolutionary Markov chain Monte Carlo, 63-76 [Zbl 1098.68650] \textit{Barichard, Vincent; Deleau, Hervé; Hao, Jin-Kao; Saubion, Frédéric}, A hybrid evolutionary algorithm for CSP, 79-90 [Zbl 1098.68643] \textit{Baños, R.; Gil, C.; Ortega, J.; Montoya, F. G.}, Optimising graph partitions using parallel evolution, 91-102 [Zbl 1098.68642] \textit{Lardeux, Frédéric; Saubion, Frédéric; Hao, Jin-Kao}, Recombination operators for satisfiability problems, 103-114 [Zbl 1098.68663] \textit{Sareni, Bruno; Regnier, Jérémi; Roboam, Xavier}, Recombination and self-adaptation in multi-objective genetic algorithms, 115-126 [Zbl 1098.68672] \textit{Murakawa, Masahiro; Nosato, Hirokazu; Higuchi, Tetsuya}, Automatic optical fiber alignment system using genetic algorithms, 129-140 [Zbl 1098.68665] \textit{Deb, Kalyanmoy; Reddy, Abbadi Raji}, Large-scale scheduling of casting sequences using a customized genetic algorithm, 141-152 [Zbl 1098.68648] \textit{Korczak, Jerzy; Quirin, Arnaud}, Evolutionary mining for image classification rules, 153-165 [Zbl 1098.68662] \textit{Segond, Marc; Mahler, Sébastien; Robilliard, Denis; Fonlupt, Cyril; Planque, Benjamin; Lazure, Pascal}, Ant algorithm for detection of retentive structures in coastal waters, 166-176 [Zbl 1098.68674] \textit{Delahaye, Daniel; Puechmorel, Stephane}, Air traffic controller keyboard optimization by artificial evolution, 177-188 [Zbl 1098.68649] \textit{Garmendia-Doval, A. Beatriz; Morley, S. David; Juhos, Szilveszter}, Post docking filtering using Cartesian genetic programming, 189-200 [Zbl 1098.68654] \textit{Collet, Pierre; Schoenauer, Marc}, GUIDE: Unifying evolutionary engines through a graphical user interface, 203-215 [Zbl 1098.68646] \textit{Cahon, S.; Melab, N.; Talbi, E.-G.; Schoenauer, M.}, ParaDisEO-based design of parallel and distributed evolutionary algorithms, 216-228 [Zbl 1098.68644] \textit{Yang, Yong; Vincent, Jonathan; Littlefair, Guy}, A coarse-grained parallel genetic algorithm employing cluster analysis for multi-modal numerical optimisation, 229-240 [Zbl 1098.68682] \textit{Tomassini, Marco; Vanneschi, Leonardo; Fernández, Francisco; Galeano, Germán}, A study of diversity in multipopulation genetic programming, 243-255 [Zbl 1098.68676] \textit{Wyns, Bart; Sette, Stefan; Boullart, Luc}, Self-improvement to control code growth in genetic programming, 256-266 [Zbl 1098.68681] \textit{Paris, Grégory; Robilliard, Denis; Fonlupt, Cyril}, Exploring overfitting in genetic programming, 267-277 [Zbl 1098.68667] \textit{Bagnall, A. J.; Toft, I.}, An agent model for first price and second price private value auctions, 281-292 [Zbl 1098.68640] \textit{Streichert, Felix; Stein, Gunnar; Ulmer, Holger; Zell, Andreas}, A clustering based niching EA for multimodal search spaces, 293-304 [Zbl 1098.68675] \textit{Groß, Roderich; Dorigo, Marco}, Evolving a cooperative transport behavior for two simple robots, 305-316 [Zbl 1098.68657] \textit{Lattaud, Claude}, Co-evolution in artificial ecosystems: Competition and cooperation using allellopathy, 319-330 [Zbl 1098.68664] \textit{Annunziato, M.; Bertini, I.; Lucchetti, M.; Pannicelli, A.; Pizzuti, S.}, The evolutionary control methodology: An overview, 331-342 [Zbl 1098.68638] \textit{Giacobini, Mario; Tomassini, Marco; Tettamanzi, Andrea}, Modeling selection intensity for linear cellular evolutionary algorithms, 345-356 [Zbl 1098.68656] \textit{Sapin, Emmanuel; Bailleux, Olivier; Chabrier, Jean-Jacques}, Research of complex forms in cellular automata by evolutionary algorithms, 357-367 [Zbl 1098.68671] \textit{Codrea, Marius C.; Aittokallio, Tero; Keränen, Mika; Tyystjärvi, Esa; Nevalainen, Olli S.}, Genetic feature learning algorithm for fluorescence fingerprinting of plants, 371-383 [Zbl 1098.68645] \textit{Sebag, Michèle; Azé, Jérôme; Lucas, Noël}, ROC-based evolutionary learning: Application to medical data mining, 384-396 [Zbl 1098.68673] \textit{Kazakov, Dimitar; Bartlett, Mark}, Social learning through evolution of language, 397-408 [Zbl 1098.68660]