--- abstract: 'In this paper the connections between the evolutionary paradigm called adaptationism and the field of evolutionary computation (EC) will be outlined. After giving an introduction to adaptationism we will try to show that the so called adaptational stance can be applied in EC as well as in biology and this application may have significant benefits. It will also be shown that this approach has serious, inherent limitations in both cases especially in the case of EC, because we lack the language which could be used to form the theories, but these representational limitations can be handled by devoting efforts to construct this language.' altloc: - http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~jelasity/cikkek/gecco99.ps.gz chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: 'July 13 - 17, 1999' conference: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference confloc: 'Orlando, Florida' contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Jelasity given: Mark honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1999 date_type: published datestamp: 2000-03-21 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/05/57 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Banzhaf given: Wolfgang honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Daida given: Jason honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Eiben given: Gusz honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Garzon given: Max honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Honavar given: Vasant honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Jakiela given: Mark honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Smith given: Rob honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 557 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_postscript.png;/557/2/gecco99.ps full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'knowledge representation, evolutionary computation, adaptation, evolution' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:04 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 1859-1864 pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: Morgan Kaufmann refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 10 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:30:52 subjects: - bio-evo - comp-sci-art-intel - comp-sci-mach-learn - phil-sci succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: The adaptationist stance and evolutionary computation type: confpaper userid: 317 volume: ~