This ebook constitutes the refereed lawsuits of the 14th foreign convention on Parallel challenge fixing from Nature, PPSN 2016, held in Edinburgh, united kingdom, in September 2016.

The overall of ninety three revised complete papers have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from 224 submissions.
The assembly started with 4 workshops which provided a fantastic chance to discover particular issues in clever transportation Workshop, landscape-aware heuristic seek, typical computing in scheduling and timetabling, and advances in multi-modal optimization.

PPSN XIV additionally incorporated 16 loose tutorials to provide us all of the chance to benefit approximately new facets: grey field optimization in conception; conception of evolutionary computation; graph-based and cartesian genetic programming; thought of parallel evolutionary algorithms; selling variety in evolutionary optimization: why and the way; evolutionary multi-objective optimization; clever platforms for clever towns; advances on multi-modal optimization; evolutionary computation in cryptography; evolutionary robotics - a realistic consultant to test with actual undefined; evolutionary algorithms and hyper-heuristics; a bridge among optimization over manifolds and evolutionary computation; enforcing evolutionary algorithms within the cloud; the attainment functionality method of functionality assessment in EMO; runtime research of evolutionary algorithms: easy creation; meta-model assisted (evolutionary) optimization.
The papers are geared up in topical sections on adaption, self-adaption and parameter tuning; differential evolution and swarm intelligence; dynamic, doubtful and limited environments; genetic programming; multi-objective, many-objective and multi-level optimization; parallel algorithms and matters; real-word functions and modeling; conception; variety and panorama analysis.