Book Review: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms
Thomas Bäck · Evolutionary Computation · 1994
The fifth event in the series of International Conferences on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA), which have been held in the United States each odd year since 1985, took place in July 1993 a t the University of Illinois a t Urbana-Champaign. It was a very well organized meeting. The steadily growing interest in the research field of evolutionary computation, of which genetic algorithms are a part, was well documented by the large number of par-ticipants (more than 300). Consequently, the conference proceedings are rather impressive, collecting 1 18 contributions (83 full papers and 3 5 one-page summaries) on 665 pages, and the Morgan Kaufmann softcover edition is reasonably priced. A classification of the papers according to the affiliation of the first author reveals that more than half of the contributions (63) originate from the United States, followed by two strong groups formed by the United Kmgdom (14) and Japan (13). With the exception of Germany (7), the remaining papers are split over a variety of countries that are represented by fewer than four papers each. Though this small exercise in counting confirms the international character of the conference, the scientific content of the contributions unfortunately does not represent the complete scope of evolutionary computation. The proceedings contain papers related to