Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery with Evolutionary Algorithms

This book addresses the integration of two areas of computer science, namely data mining and evolutionary algorithms. Both these areas have become increas­ ingly popular in the last few years, and their integration is currently an area of active research. In essence, data mining consists of extracting valid, comprehensible, and in­ teresting knowledge from data. Data mining is actually an interdisciplinary field, since there are many kinds of methods that can be used to extract knowledge from da