The 12th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2009, took place in Tu ]bingen, Germany during April 15-17 at one of the oldest univer- ties in Germany, the Eberhard Karls Universitat ] Tubing ] en. This volume c- tains manuscripts of the 21 oral presentations held during the day, and the nine posters that were presented during a dedicated evening session and reception. The topics covered in this volume re?ectthecurrentstateoftheartofgenetic programming, including representations, theory, operators and analysis, feature selection, generalization, coevolution, and numerous...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics, EvoBIO 2013, held in Vienna, Austria, in April 2013, colocated with the Evo* 2013 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoMUSART and EvoApplications. The 10 revised full papers presented together with 9 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of biological data analysis and computational biology. They address important problems in biology, from the molecular...

This textbook provides the reader with an essential understanding of computational methods for intelligent systems. These are defined as systems that can solve problems autonomously, in particular problems where algorithmic solutions are inconceivable for humans or not practically executable by computers. Despite the rapidly growing applications in this field, the book avoids application details, instead focusing on computational methods that equip the reader with the methodological tools and competencies necessary to tackle current and future complex applications.The book consists of two...