Recent advances in evolutionary computation

Abstract

Recent developments in the field of Evolutionary Computation have led to a renewed interest in its real-world applications on wide variety of application domains. This paper attempts to provide a comprehensive overview of recent advances of Evolutionary Computation studies. First, we describe the basic mechanisms of Evolutionary Computation. Moreover, a devlopment diagram of Evolutionary Computations is also shown in order to understand research perspecitve in this field. Next, several active research fields, such as Evolutionary Optimization on Dynamic/Uncertain Environments, Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization, Estimation of Distribution Algorithms, Swarm Intelligence, and Game Application are introduced. © 2008 The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan.