《IEEE进化计算汇刊》出版了进化计算和相关领域的档案质量原著，包括自然启发算法、基于人群的方法、选择和变化为积分的优化以及这些范例结合的混合系统。纯理论论文被认为是提供对这些计算领域的一般性见解的应用论文。
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation publishes archival quality original papers in evolutionary computation and related areas including nature-inspired algorithms, population-based methods, and optimization where selection and variation are integral, and hybrid systems where these paradigms are combined. Purely theoretical papers are considered as are application papers that provide general insights into these areas of computation.