Thisbook constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th European Conference onEvolutionary
Computation in Combinatorial Optimization EvoCOP 2016 held in Porto Portugal in March April
2016 co-located with the Evo*2015 events EuroGP EvoMUSART and EvoApplications.The17 revised
full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 44submissions. The papers cover
methodology applications and theoretical studies. Themethods included evolutionary and memetic
algorithms variable neighborhoodsearch particle swarm optimization hyperheuristics
mat-heuristic and otheradaptive approaches. Applications included both traditional domains
such asgraph coloring vehicle routing the longest common subsequence problem thequadratic
assignment problem and new(er) domains such as the traveling thiefproblem web service
location and finding short addition chains. Thetheoretical studies involved fitness landscape
analysis local search and recombinationoperator analysis and the big valley search space
hypothesis. Theconsideration of multiple objectives dynamic and noisy environments was
alsopresent in a number of articles.
