Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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.