Note: Intro -- Preface -- Committees -- Table of Contents -- Author Index.

Note: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3005 -- Applications of Evolutionary Computing -- Copyright -- Volume Editors -- Preface -- Organization -- Table of Contents -- A Memetic Algorithm for Protein Structure Prediction in a 3D-Lattice HP Model -- An Improved Genetic Algorithm for the Sequencing by Hybridization Problem -- Evolutionary Search of Thresholds for Robust Feature Set Selection: Application to the Analysis of Microarray Data -- Evolving Regular Expression-Based Sequence Classifiers for Protein Nuclear Localisation -- Analysis of Proteomic Pattern Data for Cancer Detection -- Self-Adaptive Scouting-Autonomous Experimentation for Systems Biology -- An Improved Grammatical Evolution Strategy for Hierarchical Petri Net Modeling of Complex Genetic Systems -- Two-Step Genetic Programming for Optimization of RNA Common-Structure -- Evolutionary Algorithms for Optimal Control in Fed-Batch Fermentation Processes -- Discrete Branch Length Representations for Genetic Algorithms in Phylogenetic Search -- Iteratively Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks with Virtual Knockout Experiments -- Multiple Sequence Alignment Using SAGA: Investigating the Effects of Operator Scheduling. Population Seeding, and Crossover Operators -- Constructing Microbial Consortia with Minimal Growth Using a Genetic Algorithm -- 2-Objective Optimization of Cells Overlap and Geometry with Evolutionary Algorithms -- A Genetic Algorithm for Telecommunication Network Design -- A GA/Heuristic Hybrid Technique for Routing and Wavelength Assignment in WDM Networks -- Ant Colony Optimization for the Maximum Edge-Disjoint Paths Problem★ -- Using Genetic Programming to Design Broadcasting Algorithms for Manhattan Street Networks★ -- A Scenario-Based Approach to Protocol Design Using Evolutionary Techniques -- A Slicing Structure Representation for the Multi-layer Floorplan Layout Problem. , Disjoint Sum of Product Minimization by Evolutionary Algorithms -- Genetic Algorithms to Improve Mask and Illumination Geometries in Lithographic Imaging Systems -- Multi-objective Genetic Manipulator Trajectory Planner -- Exploiting H\V Acceleration for Classifying Complex Test Program Generation Problems -- Evolutionary Design Space Exploration for Median Circuits -- Genetic Optimization of Morphological Filters with Applications in Breast Cancer Detection -- Image Segmentation by a Genetic Fuzzy c-Means Algorithm Using Color and Spatial Information -- Bond-Issuer Credit Rating with Grammatical Evolution -- Using GAs to Create a Waveguide Model of the Oral Vocal Tract -- Vision-Based Hand Motion Capture Using Genetic Algorithm -- Top-Down Evolutionary Image Segmentation Using a Hierarchical Social Metaheuristic -- Multi-objective Sensor Planning for Efficient and Accurate Object Reconstruction -- An Algorithm for Segmenting Gaseous Objects on Images -- Evolution Strategies Approach for the Solution of an Inverse Problem in Near-Field Optics -- A Watermark Sharing Scheme to High Quality Halftone Images with Genetic Algorithms -- Using Genetic Programming for Character Discrimination in Damaged Documents -- Evolutionary Algorithm-Based Local Structure Modeling for Improved Active Shape Model★ -- Multiclass Object Classification Using Genetic Programming -- Program Size and Pixel Statistics in Genetic Programming for Object Detection -- Intrinsic Evolvable Hardware in Digital Filter Design -- Swarm Granulator -- Aesthetic Video Filter Evolution in an Interactive Real-Time Framework -- Generative Art: Fuzzy Polygon Clipping in Program Generated Line Oriented Drawings -- Tilings of Sequences of Co-evolved Images -- Adaptive Critics for Evolutionary Artists. , Automated Aesthetic Selection of Evolutionary Art by Distance Based Classification of Genomes and Phenomes Using the Universal Similarity Metric -- Improvisational Media Space: Architecture and Strategies for Evolution -- The Virtual Ecosystem as Generative Electronic Art -- Aesthetic Evolution of L-Systems Revisited -- Multi-swarm Optimization in Dynamic Environments -- Evolutionary Algorithms for Stochastic Arc Routing Problems -- A. Hierarchical Particle Swarm Optimizer for Dynamic Optimization Problems -- Constructing Dynamic Optimization Test Problems Using the Multi-objective Optimization Concept -- Competitive Goal Coordination in Automatic Parking -- Evolutionary Bavesian Network Dvnamic Planner for Game RISK -- Author Index.

Note: Front Cover -- Front Matter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Section 1: Impact of Global Economics Imbalances and Crises on World Tourism -- How International Tourism is Coping with the Consequences of the Financial and Economic Crisis -- Post Crisis Forecast of Tourist Arrivals - Asia Pacific -- The Impact of Global Economic Recession on Tourism SMMEs in South Africa -- Potential of the Tourism Confidence Index in the Circumstances of Economic Crisis -- Regional Differences of Strategies towards Crises in Tourism -- Section 2: Lessons to be Learnt for FutureTourism Development in Poor Regions -- Skills and Tourism Facilities in a Poverty Context: The Role of a NGO in the Peruvian Andes -- Linkage between Operators' Satisfaction and Local Resource Potential for Rural Tourism -- Venture Capital Financing and Tourism Industry in South Africa -- Technical Cooperation as a Driver for Destination Development? - Two Cases from India -- Section 3: Strategic Approaches for Developing Tourism Destinations -- Tourism a Vehicle of Development? - A Regional Approach -- Can Community-Based Tourism Trigger Poverty Reduction - a Case Study from Kenya -- Tourism and Poverty Alleviation Approaches: A Case Study Comparison -- Twenty Years of Tourism Development Research: A Strategic Market Forces Perspective -- List of Authors -- Back Cover.