Sources and records.
The restoration separates documented facts from interpretation. These sources support the dates, programme, people and scientific context described on this site.
IEEE material
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation archive
The IEEE archive lists CEC2004 in Portland, its dates, General Chair Garrison W. Greenwood and Program Chair Gary Fogel.
CEC2004 proceedings front matter
Confirms the venue, co-sponsors, organising committee and technical review panel.
Bibliographic record
DBLP: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2004
A structured table of contents for both proceedings volumes, including plenary lectures and conference papers. Proceedings ISBN: 0-7803-8515-2.
Surviving academic pages
RMIT University: Swarm Intelligence special session
Preserves organisers, topics, dates, technical committee and historical submission information.
De Montfort University: Shengxiang Yang research record
Documents the special session on Evolutionary Optimisation in Dynamic Environments and participation in CEC2004.
Connecticut College: Gary Parker publications
Lists three papers presented at the Congress on Evolutionary Computation in Portland in June 2004.
Swarthmore College: Genetic Algorithms course project
A surviving educational page that linked directly to the original CEC2004 competition route.
Contemporary notices
Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, May 2004
Lists CEC2004 with dates, venue, General Chair and the original conference URL.
Local historical captures
The restoration project also preserves supplied Wayback Machine screenshots from 2003–2017 and extracted text from selected captures. The 2003 and 2004 versions are treated as the primary website record. Later captures document domain parking and unrelated reuse rather than conference history.