FITNESS EVALUATION -- Introduction to fitness evaluation -- Encoding and decoding functions -- Competitive fitness evaluation -- Complexity-based fitness evaluation -- Multiobjective optimization -- CONSTRAINT-HANDLING TECHNIQUES -- Introduction to constraint-handling techniques -- Penalty functions -- Decoders -- Repair algorithms -- Constraint-preserving operators -- Other constraint-handling methods -- Constraint-satisfaction problems -- POPULATION STRUCTURES -- Niching methods -- Speciation methods -- Island (migration) models: evolutionary algorithms based on punctuated equilibria -- Diffusion (cellular) models -- ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION -- Population sizing -- Mutation parameters -- Recombination parameters -- Parameter control -- Self-adaptation -- Meta-evolutionary approaches -- Coevolutionary algorithms -- IMPLEMENTATION OF EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS -- Efficient implementation of algorithms -- Computation time of evolutionary operators -- Hardware realizations of evolutionary algorithms -- INDEX.