The authors of each paper will have a total of 45 minutes to present. Each presenter should not aim to fill the 45 minutes but instead allow time for, and actively encourage discussion of their work. Similarly the audience should be prepared to participate.
(Visit here for the list of papers to be presented).
Wednesday, Jan. 5th
Thursday, Jan. 6th
| 8:30 - 8:40 |
Welcome Introduction |
| Chair Nikolaus Hansen |
| 8:40 - 9:25 |
1. Talk: Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms: From Computational Complexity Analysis to Algorithm Engineering,
Thomas Jansen, Christine Zarges |
| 9:25 - 10:10 |
2. Talk: On the Behaviour of the (1,lambda)-ES for a Simple Constrained Problem,
Dirk V. Arnold |
| 10:10 - 10:30 |
Break |
| Chair Alden H. Wright |
| 10:30 - 11:15 |
3. Talk: Parity is Not Elementary,
W. B. Langdon |
| 11:15 - 12:00 |
4. Talk: On the Practicality of Optimal Output Mechanisms for Co-optimization Algorithms,
Elena Popovici, Ezra Winston, Anthony Bucci |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 - 16:30 |
Outdoor Activities |
| Chair W. B. Langdon |
| 16:30 - 17:15 |
5. Talk: Handling Expensive Optimization with Large Noise,
Remi Coulom, Philippe Rolet, Nataliya Sokolovska, Olivier Teytaud |
| 17:15 - 18:00 |
6. Talk: Computational Complexity Analysis of Simple Genetic Programming On Two Problems Modeling Isolated Program Semantics,
Greg Durrett, Frank Neumann, Una-May O'Reilly |
| 18:00 - 18:30 |
Break |
| Chair Guenter Rudolph |
| 18:30 - 19:15 |
7. Talk: The Logarithmic Hypervolume Indicator,
Tobias Friedrich, Karl Bringmann, Thomas Voss, Christian Igel |
| 19:15 - 20:00 |
8. Talk: Approximating the Distribution of Fitness over Hamming Regions,
Andrew M. Sutton, L. Darrell Whitley, Adele E. Howe |
| 20:00 |
Dinner |
Friday, Jan. 7th
| Chair Alberto Moraglio |
| 8:30 - 9:15 |
9. Talk: The Role of Selective Pressure When Solving Symmetric Functions In Polynomial Time,
Lars Kaden, Nicole Weicker, Karsten Weicker |
| 9:15 - 10:00 |
10. Talk: Runtime Analysis of the (1+1) Evolutionary Algorithm for Generalized Pseudo-Boolean Functions,
Benjamin Doerr, Daniel Johannsen, Martin Schmidt |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Break |
| Chair Dirk Arnold |
| 10:30 - 11:15 |
11. Talk: Analyzing the Impact of Mirrored Sampling and Sequential Selection in Elitist Evolution Strategies,
Anne Auger, Dimo Brockhoff, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 11:15 - 12:00 |
12. Talk: Using Markov-Chain Mixing Time Estimates for the Analysis of Ant Colony Optimization,
Dirk Sudholt |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
| Chair Dirk Sudholt |
| 13:30 - 14:15 |
13. Talk: Abstract Convex Evolutionary Search,
Alberto Moraglio |
| 14:15 - 15:00 |
14. Talk: Faster Black-Box Algorithms Through Higher Arity Operators,
Benjamin Doerr, Daniel Johannsen, Timo Koetzing, Per Kristian Lehre, Markus Wagner, Carola Winzen |
| 15:00 - 15:15 |
Short Break |
| Chair Benjamin Doerr |
| 15:15 - 16:00 |
15. Talk: Non-uniform Mutation Rates for Problems with Unknown Solution Lengths,
Stephan Cathabard, Per Kristian Lehre, Xin Yao |
| 16:15 |
Bus Transfer to Rolls Royce Museum & Berghof Fetz |
Saturday, Jan. 8th
| Chair Hans-Georg Beyer |
| 8:30 - 10:00 |
Invited Talk: by Prof. Karl Sigmund |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Break |
| Chair Anne Auger |
| 10:30 - 11:15 |
16. Talk: Adaptive Population Models for Offspring Populations and Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms,
Joerg Laessig, Dirk Sudholt |
| 11:15 - 12:00 |
17. Talk: On the Movement of Vertex Fixed Points in the Simple GA,
Alden H. Wright, Tomas Gedeon, J. Neal Richter |
| 12:00 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 - 16:30 |
Outdoor Activities |
| Chair Anthony Bucci |
| 16:30 - 17:15 |
18. Talk: Simple Max-Min Ant Systems and the Optimization of Linear Pseudo-Boolean Functions,
Timo Kotzing, Frank Neumann, Dirk Sudholt, Markus Wagner |
| 17:15 - 18:00 |
19. Talk: Using Multivariate Quantitative Genetics Theory to Assist in EA Customization,
Jeffrey K. Bassett, Kenneth A. De Jong |
| 18:00 - 18:30 |
Break |
| Chair Ken De Jong. |
| 18:30 - 19:15 |
20. Talk: Towards the Geometry of Estimation of Distribution Algorithms based on the Exponential Family,
Luigi Malago, Matteo Matteucci, Giovanni Pistone |
| 19:15 - 20:00 |
21. Talk: Convergence Rates of SMS-EMOA on Continuous Bi-Objective Problem Classes,
Nicola Beume, Marco Laumanns, Guenter Rudolph |
| 20:00 - 20:15 |
Closing remarks Prof. Ken De Jong. |
| 20:15 |
Dinner |
Sunday, Jan. 9th
| 7:00-10:30 |
Breakfast |
| Departure |
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 If there are bad weather conditions, we skip the outdoor activities, extend lunch to 14:00 and have the talks from 14:00 to 17:30. In that case we would have dinner at 18:00.
Tentative schedule revision 12 Dec
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