This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, SEAL 2006, held in Hefei, China in October 2006.
The 117 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 420 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evolutionary learning, evolutionary optimization, hybrid learning, adaptive systems, theoretical issues in evolutionary computation, and real-world applications of evolutionary computation techniques.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Commenced Publication in 1973 Founding and Former Series Editors: Gerhard Goos, Juris Hartmanis, and Jan van Leeuwen Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany 4247 Tzai-Der Wang Shu-Heng Chen Hussein Abbass Guoliang Chen Xiaodong Li Xufa Wang Hitoshi Iba Xin Yao (Eds.) Simulated Evolution and Learning 6th International Conference, SEAL 2006 Hefei, China, October 15-18, 2006 Proceedings 13 Volume Editors Tzai-Der Wang Cheng Shiu University, Taiwan, E-mail: