Authors are invited to submit extended versions of the abstracts, subject to further review to be published in "EVOLVE - A bridge between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics and Evolutionary Computation", in the series Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer (edited book on the theoretical foundations of evolutionary computation, indexed by DBLP, Ulrichs, SCOPUS, MathSciNet, Current Mathematical Publications, Mathematical Reviews, Zentralblatt Math: MetaPress and Springerlink).

The massive use and large applicability spectrum of evolutionary algorithms for real-life applications determined the need of establishing solid theoretical grounds. Only to offer a few examples, one may consider mathematical objects that are sometimes difficult and/or costly to calculate. At the same time, acknowledged new results show that evolutionary computation can provide in some cases good and fast estimators of these quantities. Similarly, the handling of large quantities of data may require the use of distributed environments where the probability of failure and the stability of the algorithms may need to be addressed. What is more, common practice confirms in many cases that theory based results have the advantage of ensuring performance guarantee factors for evolutionary algorithms in areas as diverse as optimization, bio-informatics or robotics. The aim of this book is to build a bridge between probabilities, statistics, set oriented numerics and evolutionary computing, as to identify new common and challenging research aspects. The book is also intended to foster a growing interest for robust and efficient methods with a sound theoretical background. The book is intended to unify theory-inspired methods and cutting-edge techniques ensuring performance guarantee factors.

Summarizing, this book focuses on challenging aspects arising at the passage from theory to new paradigms and aims to provide a unified view while raising questions related to reliability, performance guarantees and modeling.

Important Dates:

Proposal submission: August 1, 2011
Full chapter submission: October 15, 2011 November 1, 2011
Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2011 January 15, 2011
Final version submission: February 15, 2012
Expected publication: Middle of 2012

Instructions for Authors and Submission:

Latex and Word style files for the submission along with instructions for authors are available online on Springer’s site at http://www.springer.com/series/7092. Proposals have to be sent in PDF format before the 1st of August to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . All submitted chapters will be peer-reviewed. The final chapter should not exceed 30 pages and has to include the source file as well as all other accompanying resources, e.g. figures, illustrations, logos, charts, etc.