Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation 12th Italian Workshop, WIVACE 2017, Venice, Italy, September 19-21, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 12th Italian Workshop on Advances in Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation, WIVACE 2017, held in Venice, Italy, in September 2017.The 23 full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. They cover the following topics: physical-chemical phenomena; biological systems; economy and society; complexity; optimization.