Affiliations: Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione (D.I.S.Co.), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy | Intelligent Bio-Inspired Systems (IBIS) Lab, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Note: [] Corresponding author. Leonardo Vanneschi, Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione (D.I.S.Co.), University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy. E-mail: vanneschi@disco.unimib.it
Abstract: We introduce the special issue on Evolutionary Computation (EC) reporting a non-exhaustive list of topics which have recently attracted much interest from the EC community, with particular regard to the ones dealt with by the papers included in this issue: EC research, hybrid neuro-evolutionary systems and synergies between EC and complex systems. In addition, we introduce a more technological emerging topic: the parallel implementation of evolutionary and Swarm Intelligence algorithms on graphics processor units (GPUs), by which new applications of evolutionary algorithms have been made possible, even in real-time environments.
