This book constitutes the referred proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2026, held as part of EvoStar 2026, in Toulouse, France, during April 8-10, 2026.
The 10 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions.
The 10 accepted papers cover a variety of topics, ranging from fitness landscape analysis, over adaptive methods, heuristics for real-world and NP-hard problems, and foundations of evolutionary computation algorithms to multi-objective optimization.