''IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation'' is a bimonthly

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published by the

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. It covers

evolutionary computation In computer science, evolutionary computation is a family of algorithms for global optimization inspired by biological evolution, and the subfield of artificial intelligence and soft computing studying these algorithms. In technical terms, ...

and related areas including nature-inspired algorithms, population-based methods, and

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where selection and variation are integral, and hybrid systems where these paradigms are combined. The

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is Carlos A. Coello Coello (

CINVESTAV The Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (in Spanish: ''Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional'' or simply as ''CINVESTAV-IPN'') is a Mexican non-governmental ...

). According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 16.497. The journal was established in 1997 by the IEEE Neural Networks Council, with David B. Fogel as founding editor-in-chief (1997-2002). Other editors-in-chief have included Xin Yao (2003-2008), Garrison Greenwood (2009-2014) and Kay Chen Tan (2015-2020).

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*{{Official website, https://cis.ieee.org/publications/t-evolutionary-computation Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Computer science journals Bimonthly journals English-language journals Publications established in 1997