This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Evolutionary
Computation in Combinatorial Optimization EvoCOP 2013 held in Vienna Austria in April 2013
colocated with the Evo* 2013 events EuroGP EvoBIO EvoMUSART and EvoApplications. The 23
revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The
papers present the latest research and discuss current developments and applications in
metaheuristics - a paradigm to effectively solve difficult combinatorial optimization problems
appearing in various industrial economic and scientific domains. Prominent examples of
metaheuristics are ant colony optimization evolutionary algorithms greedy randomized adaptive
search procedures iterated local search simulated annealing tabu search and variable
neighborhood search. Applications include scheduling timetabling network design
transportation and distribution vehicle routing the travelling salesman problem packing and
cutting satisfiability and general mixed integer programming.
