To assist in understanding trends in the field of Evolutionary Computation (EC) and in helping graduates find jobs in EC, we conducted a survey from March 2005 to February 2006 on members of the EC community. The analysis reveals various technology transfer strategies and activities took place during the past 50 years: parallel exploration of multiple application areas; a combination of exploitation and exploration approaches to develop EC applications; and the healthy migration of EC practitioners between different parts of the globe.We believe these emerged and self-organized phenomena contribute to the growth of the field. While there are still challenges in deploying evolutionary computation to industry in a grand scale, the EC community demonstrates the adaptability and resilience necessary to achieve that goal.
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Hornby, G.S., Yu, T. (2008). A Survey of Practitioners of Evolutionary Computation. In: Yu, T., Davis, L., Baydar, C., Roy, R. (eds) Evolutionary Computation in Practice. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 88. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75771-9_13
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