For this fifth edition of Evolution Artificielle, the Programme Committee had the very nice surprise of receiving 66 submissions, from all five continents.

These submissions being also of quite high quality, the questions of running several sessions in parallel, allowing only 15 or 20 minutes per presentation, having a poster session, having demos during the breaks, ... were raised to allow more papers to be presented.
Finally, the organising committee decided to stick to the same recipe (no parallel sessions, 30 minutes for presentation+questions) because we wanted authors to have enough time to present their work decently to a large audience, even if this meant that good papers would be refused (accept rate of only 45%), as this formula only allows around 30 presentations over three days.

As a consequence, the programme committee had the pleasure to find that all reviewers of the 26 first papers had ticked either "Interesting, probably accept", or "Excellent paper, MUST be accepted", leaving only a small space for slightly more controversial papers.

We therefore thank all the authors who have submitted a paper, and more particularly those listed below, for the very high quality of their work, leading us to think that this fifth Evolution Artificielle conference will be of oustanding quality.

See you in Le Creusot in October !

Pierre COLLET
On behalf of the EA'01 Programme Committee.

K. Abboud and Marc Schoenauer
Surrogate Deterministic Mutation: Preliminary Results

M. BELAIDOUNI and J-K HAO
SAT, local search dynamics and density of states

Arnaud Berny
Extending Selection Learning toward Fixed-Length Non Binary Strings

Alexis Bienvenue, Marc Joannides, Jean Berard, Eric Fontenas and Olivier
Francois
Niching in Monte-Carlo Filtering Algorithms

Thomas Bousonville
The Two Stage Continuous Parallel Flow-Shop Problem with Limited Storage: Modelling and Algorithms

D.F. Brown, A.B. Garmedia-Doval, J.A.W. McCall
Markov Random Field Modelling of Royal Road Genetic Algorithms

Jorge Casillas, Oscar Cord¢n, Francisco Herrera, and Juan J. Merelo
Cooperative Coevolution for Learning Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems

Umberto Cerruti, Mario Giacobini and Pierre Liardet
Evolving Finite State Machine Prediction of Binary Sequences

Samuel Delepoulle, Philippe Preux and Jean-Claude Darcheville
Learning as a Consequence of Selection

Ian Edmonds
The Impact of Environmental Structure on the Evolutionary Trajectories of a Foraging Agent

Jean-Philippe Hamiez, Jin-Kao Hao
Scatter Search for Graph Colouring

Andrew Johnson and Jonathan Shapiro
The importance of Selection Mechanisms in Distribution Estimation Algorithms

M. Keijzer, J. J. Merelo, G. Romero, and M. Schoenauer
Evolving Objects: a general purpose evolutionary computation library

Hidehiro Kobayachi, Masaharu Munetomo, Kiyoshi Akams and Yoshiharu Sato
A Distributed Genetic Algorithm for Bandwidth Allocation in Multimedia Networks

Jerzy Korczak, Piotr Lipinski and Patrick Roger
Evolution Strategy in Portfolio Optimization

Ingo La Tendresse, Jens Gottlieb, Odej Kao
The Effects of Partial Restarts in Evolutionary Search

Benoît Leblanc, Evelyne Lutton, Bertrand Braunschweig, Hervé Toulhoat
Experimenting History and Immortality in Evolutionary Computation

Rodolphe Le Riche and Frédéric Guyon
Dual Evolutionary Optimisation

Evelyne Lutton, Pierre Collet, Jean Louchet
EASEA Comparisons on Test Functions: Galib Versus EO

Ronald W. Morrison and Kenneth A. De Jong
Measurement of Population Diversity

Pierre-yves Oudeyer
Origins and Learnability of Syllable Systems : a Cultural Evolutionary Model

G. Paris, D. Robilliard, C. Fonlupt
Application de techniques de boosting . la programmation génétique

Alain Ratle, Michèle Sebag
Avoiding the Bloat with Probabilistic Grammar-Guided Programming

D. Robilliard and C. Fonlupt
Backwarding: an overfitting control for genetic programming in a remote sensing application

Olga Roudenko, Marc Schoenauer, Tiziana Bosio, Roberto Fontana
Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for Car Front End Design

Franciszek Seredynski and Albert Y. Zomaya
Coevolution and Evolving Parallel Cellular Automata-Based Scheduling Algorithms

Alain Sidaner, Olivier Bailleux, Jean-Jacques Chabrier
Measuring the Spatial Dispersion of Evolutionist Search Processes: Application to Walksat

Stephen Smith
Using Evolutionary Algorithms Incorporating the Augmented Lagrangian Penalty Function to Solve Discrete and Continuous Constrained Non-Linear Optimal Control Problems

Ravi Srivastava, Amit Kaldate
Evolving Cooperative Ecosystems: A Multi-agent simulation of deforestation activities

Ruixiang Sun, Fugee Tsung and Liangsheng Qu
Combining Bootstrap and Genetic Programming for Feature Discovery in Fault Diagnosis

Shigeyoshi Tsutsui, David E. Goldberg, Kumara Sastry
Linkage Learning in Real-Coded GAs with Simplex Crossover