This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Evolutionary
Computation in Combinatorial Optimization EvoCOP 2018 held in Parma Italy in April 2018
co-located with the Evo* 2018 events EuroGP EvoMUSART and EvoApplications. The 12 revised full
papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers cover a
wide spectrum of topics ranging from the foundations of evolutionary computation algorithms
and other search heuristics to their accurate design and application to both single- and
multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems. Fundamental and methodological aspects
deal with runtime analysis the structural properties of fitness landscapes the study of
metaheuristics core components the clever design of their search principles and their careful
selection and configuration by means of automatic algorithm configuration and hyper-heuristics.
Applications cover conventional academic domains such as NK landscapes binary quadratic
programming traveling salesman vehicle routing or scheduling problems and also include
real-world domains in clustering commercial districting and winner determination.
