The Fifth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms

The Fifth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms was held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 17-21 July 1993. Approximately 350 participants attended the multitrack conference, which covered a wide range of topics, including genetic operators, mathematical analysis of genetic algorithms, parallel genetic algorithms, classifier systems, and genetic programming. This article highlights the major themes of the conference by discussing a few papers in detail. The conference was organized by Stephanie Forrest (University of New Mexico, conference cochair and editor of the proceedings), David Goldberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, conference cochair and local arrangements chair), and J. David Schaffer (Philips Laboratories, New York, conference cochair). Of the 240 papers submitted to the conference, 82 were accepted for oral presentation, and 37 were accepted for poster presentation.