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Evolutionary computation has enjoyed a tremendous growth in more than a decade in both its theoretical foundations and industrial applications. Its scope has gone beyond its earlier meaning of “genetic evolution”. Many research topics in evolutionary computation nowadays are not necessarily “evolutionary” in any sense. There is a need for studying a wide variety of nature inspired computational algorithms and techniques, including evolutionary, neural, ecological computation, etc., in a unified framework This paper gives an overview of some work that has been going on in the Natural Computation Group at The University of Birmingham, UK. It covers topics in optimisation, learning and design using nature inspired algorithms and techniques. Some recent theoretical results in the computational time complexity of evolutionary and neural optimisation algorithms will also be mentioned.
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Yao, X. (2002). From Evolutionary Computation to Natural Computation. In: Parmee, I.C. (eds) Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture V. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-345-9_4
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