Pizzuti, Clara, and Giandomenico Spezzano, eds. Advances in Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation: 9th Italian Workshop, WIVACE 2014, Vietri Sul Mare, Italy, May 14-15, Revised Selected Papers . Vol. 445. Springer, 2014.
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This volume of the Springer book series Communications in Computer and Information Science contains the proceedings of WIVACE 2014, the Ninth Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, held from May 14 to 15, 2014, in Vietri Sul Mare, Italy. The goal of WIVACE 2014 was to provide researchers in evolutionary computation, complex systems, and artificial life with an opportunity for the presentation of relevant novel researches in a strongly multidisciplinary context. Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (ALEC) are core research areas of what has become an exciting cross-fertilization between evolutionary biology, computer science, and engineering. Computer scientists and engineers, inspired by evolution in nature, realized that they could apply the same powerful Darwinian mechanism in computers for practical purposes, such as complex industrial design.