IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation


IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. It covers evolutionary computation and related areas including nature-inspired algorithms, population-based methods, and optimization where selection and variation are integral, and hybrid systems where these paradigms are combined. The editor-in-chief is Kay Chen Tan. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 8.124.
The publication was founded in 1997 by the IEEE Neural Networks Council, with David B. Fogel as founding editor-in-chief. Other editors-in-chief have included Prof. Xin Yao and Prof. Garrison Greenwood.