Editorial Introduction

Kenneth A. De Jong

Riccardo Poli

Jonathan E. Rowe

Schema Analysis of OneMax Problem: Evolution Equation for First Order Schemata

Hiroshi Furutani

Partitioning, Epistasis, and Uncertainty

Robert B. Heckendorn

A Schema-Theory-Based Extension of Geiringer's Theorem for Linear GP and Variable-length GAs under Homologous Crossover

Riccardo Poli

Christopher R. Stephens

Alden H. Wright

Jonathan E. Rowe

Bistability in a Gene Pool GA with Mutation

Alden H. Wright

Jonathan E. Rowe

Christopher R. Stephens

Riccardo Poli

The ``Crossover Landscape'' and the Hamming Landscape for Binary Search Spaces

Colin R. Reeves

Modeling Finite Populations

Adam Prugel-Bennett

The Sensitivity of PBIL to Its Learning Rate, and How Detailed Balance Can Remove It

J. L. Shapiro

Evolutionary Algorithms and the Boltzmann Distribution

Heinz Muhlenbein

Thilo Mahnig

Modeling and Simulating Diploid Simple Genetic Algorithms

Anthony M. L. Liekens

Huub M. M. ten Eikelder

Peter A. J. Hilbers

On the Evolution of Phenotypic Exploration Distributions

Marc Toussaint

How Many Good Programs are There? How Long are They?

W. B. Langdon

Modeling Variation in Cooperative Coevolution Using Evolutionary Game Theory

R. Paul Wiegand

William C. Liles

Kenneth A. De Jong

A Mathematical Framework for the Study of Coevolution

Anthony Bucci

Jordan B. Pollack

Guaranteeing Coevolutionary Objective Measures

Sean Luke

R. Paul Wiegand

A New Framework for the Valuation of Algorithms for Black-Box Optimization

Stefan Droste

Thomas Jansen

Karsten Tinnefeld

Ingo Wegener

A Study on Performance of the (1+1)-Evolutionary Algorithm

Pavel A. Borisovsky

Anton V. Eremeev

The Long Term Behavior of Genetic Algorithms with Stochastic Evaluation

Ralph Hartley

On the Behavior of (μ/μIλ)--ES Optimizing Functions Disturbed by Generalized Noise

Hans-Georg Beyer

Markus Olhofer

Bernhard Sendhoff

Parameter Perturbation Mechanisms in Binary Coded GAs with Self-Adaptive Mutation

Jim Smith

Fitness Gains and Mutation Patterns: Deriving Mutation Rates by Exploiting Landscape Data

David W. Corne

Martin J. Oates

Douglas B. Kell

Towards Qualitative Models of Interactions in Evolutionary Algorithms

Karsten Weicker

Nicole Weicker

Genetic Search Reinforced by the Population Hierarchy

Robert Schaefer

Joanna Kolodziej

Author Index

Key word Index