The following topics are dealt with: ant colony optimization; molecular and quantum computing; artificial life; particle swarm intelligence; bioinformatics and bioengineering; representation and operators; coevolution and collective behavior; artificial immune systems; combinatorial and numerical optimization; autonomous mental and behavior development; constraint and uncertainty handling; cognitive systems and applications; evolutionary data mining; computational finance and economics; evolutionary learning systems; estimation of distribution algorithms; evolvable hardware and software; evolutionary design; evolving neural networks and fuzzy systems; and evolutionary intelligent agents.