Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms - Ville Kolehmainen Kartoniert (TB)

The ICANNGA series of conferences has been organized since 1993 and has a long history of promoting the principles and understanding of computational intelligence paradigms within the scienti?c community. Originally ICANNGA stood for International Conference on Arti?cial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms but in 2005 the conference was renamed to International C- ference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms while keeping the acronymICANNGA.The?rstICANNGAconferencewasheldinInnsbruckA- tria (1993) then Al es in France (1995) Norwich in the UK (1997) Portoroz in Slovenia (1999) P rague in the Czech Republic (2001) Roanne in France (2003) CoimbrainPortugal(2005)andWarsawinPoland(2007).ContinuingthisEu- peantradition the9thICANNGA washeldinKuopio Finland(2009).Thevast majority of ICANNGA conferences is organized by and based at a university. Drawing on the experience of previous events and following the same g- eral model ICANNGA 2009 combined plenary lectures and technical sessions. Apart from being a widely recognized conference it enhanced the possibility to exchange opinions through lectures and discussions provided a great oppor- nity to meet new colleagues as well as to renew old friendships and to facilitate the possibilities for international collaborations. As previously the conference proceedings are published in the Springer LNCS series.