EvoCOP Contributions.- Mutation Multiplicity in a Panmictic Two-Strategy Genetic Algorithm.- Solving the Vehicle Routing Problem by Using Cellular Genetic Algorithms.- Landscape Regularity and Random Walks for the Job-Shop Scheduling Problem.- A Comparison of Adaptive Operator Scheduling Methods on the Traveling Salesman Problem.- AntPacking – An Ant Colony Optimization Approach for the One-Dimensional Bin Packing Problem.- Scatter Search and Memetic Approaches to the Error Correcting Code Problem.- A Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm for Solving the Register Allocation Problem.- Parallel Ant Systems for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem.- A Hierarchical Social Metaheuristic for the Max-Cut Problem.- On the Structure of Sequential Search: Beyond “No Free Lunch”.- Dealing with Solution Diversity in an EA for Multiple Objective Decision Support – A Case Study.- A Study into Ant Colony Optimisation, Evolutionary Computation and Constraint Programming on Binary Constraint Satisfaction Problems.- Binary Merge Model Representation of the Graph Colouring Problem.- Hardness Prediction for the University Course Timetabling Problem.- Hybrid Estimation of Distribution Algorithm for Multiobjective Knapsack Problem.- On the Use of Path Relinking for the ? – Hub Median Problem.- Solving a Real-World Glass Cutting Problem.- Designing Reliable Communication Networks with a Genetic Algorithm Using a Repair Heuristic.- Improving Vehicle Routing Using a Customer Waiting Time Colony.- New Benchmark Instances for the QAP and the Experimental Analysis of Algorithms.- Improving Edge Recombination through Alternate Inheritance and Greedy Manner.- Clustering Nominal and Numerical Data: A New Distance Concept for a Hybrid Genetic Algorithm.- On Search Space Symmetry inPartitioning Problems.