"The evolution of parallel computing" focuses on those aspects related to the parallelization of evolutionary computation, such as parallel genetic operators, parallel fitness evaluation, distributed genetic algorithms, and parallel hardware implementation, and its impact on several applications. The book is divided into four sections. The third section treats the problem is distributed evolutionary computation and presents three interesting applications where parallel EC new ideas are displayed. Finally, the last part associated with up-to date field optimization parallel particle gathered to illustrate the intrinsic similarities and potential extensions to techniques in this domain.