From the reviews: "The purpose of this book ... is to describe the variety of architectures and applications currently being used in evolutionary computation. Evolutionary computation has become an important and frequently used technique for problems in science, engineering, economics, medicine, business, commerce, and the like. ... This book could be a useful expose of how worldwide researchers (outside of the US) are developing new combinations of algorithms ... . Summing Up: Recommended. Researchers, faculty, and professionals." (S. E. Haupt, CHOICE, Vol. 46 (01), September, 2008)