Chairs' welcome for GECCO'17 workshop "evolution in cognition".

Even though evolution by means of natural selection is a simple process, it has resulted in the vastness of life forms that today exist and ever existed, and which include complex traits such as the cognitive capacity of humans. Having noted the potential of evolution's creative power, scientists have attempted to mimick this process through the use of Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs), an efficient and robust set of computational tools for optimization, which also offers a methodology for the generation of innovative solutions to novel problems.