Glasgow is a node of the European Network of Excellence on Evolutionary Computing. The Artificial Intelligence Research Group in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University, headed by Dr. Vasant Honavar conducts research in Evolutionary Design of Neural Architectures and related approaches for robotics, control, learning, and intelligent agents. Their research projects include multi-objective genetic algorithms, GAs for production scheduling, and control applications of Evolutionary Computation. Research activities in evolutionary computation , complex adaptive systems and economics, are being performed at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Under the direction of Prof. Attilio Giordana and Prof. Lorenza Saitta the Evolutionary Computation Group at University of Torino has interests in distributed GA-based machine learning, and the analysis of GAs.
Memetic algorithms combine genetic algorithms with local search techniques.
The Plymouth Engineering Design Centre at the University of Plymouth headed by Dr Ian Parmee carry out research concerning the application of the genetic algorithm and other adaptive search techniques to engineering design. Evolution of Parallel Cellular Machines is the title of the work being performed by a research group in the Logic Systems Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Their web page includes a good list of resources on Complex Systems and Artificial Life . This site includes a description of the research that implements a very nice demonstration of a simulated traffic network that is implemented in Java. Evolutionary Computation Research at the National University of San Luis, Argentina .