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Best Paper Nomination
MONDAY
JULY 14
Keynote: Martin I. Meltzer,
Ph.D
Room: Georgia West
Session Chair:
8:30-10:10
GP-2: Applications
I
Room: Georgia West
Session Chair: Nicholas Freitag
McPhee (University of Minnesota,
Morris)
10:40-11:05 Automated Shape Composition Based on Cell Biology and
Distributed Genetic Programming
Linge Bai, Manolya Eyiyurekli, David
E Breen
11:05-11:30 Evolutionary Lossless Compression with GP-ZIP*
Ahmad Kattan, Riccardo Poli
11:30-11:55 Evolution of Hyperheuristics for the Biobjective
0/1 Knapsack Problem by Multiobjective
Genetic Programming
Rajeev Kumar, Ashwin H. Joshi, Krishna K.
Banka, Peter I. Rockett
GA-1: Best Paper Nominees
Room: Georgia East
Session Chair: Martin Pelikan
(University of Missouri in St. Louis)
10:40-11:05 Optimal Sampling of Genetic Algorithms on Polynomial
Regression 
Tian-Li Yu, Wei-Kai Lin
11:05-11:30 Rank Based Variation Operators for Genetic Algorithms 
Jorge Cervantes, Christopher Rhodes
Stephens
11:30-11:55 Theoretical Analysis of Diversity Mechanisms for Global
Exploration
Tobias Friedrich, Pietro S. Oliveto,
Dirk Sudholt, Carsten Witt
11:55-12:20 Rigorous Analyses of Fitness-Proportional Selection for
Optimizing Linear Functions 
Edda Happ, Daniel Johannsen, Christian Klein,
Frank Neumann
BIO-2: Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology
Room: Atlanta A
Session Chair: Clare Bates
Congdon (University of Southern Maine)
10:40-11:05 Evolution of Discrete Gene Regulatory Models
Afshin Esmaeili, Christian Jacob
11:05-11:30 Finding Consensus Trees by Evolutionary, Variable Neighborhood
Search, and Hybrid Algorithms
Sandro Pirkwieser, Günther R. Raidl
11:30-11:55 Rapid Evaluation and Evolution o Neural Models using
Graphics Card Hardware
Thomas F Clayton, Leena N Patel, Gareth Leng,
Alan F Murray, Iain A B Lindsay
RWA-2: Financial Engineering
Room: Atlanta B
Session Chair: Christopher
D. Clack (University College London)
10:40-11:05 Combatting Financial Fraud: A Coevolutionary Anomaly
Detection Approach
Shelly Xiaonan Wu, Wolfgang Banzhaf
11:05-11:30 Learning to Optimize Profits Beats Predicting Returns
- Comparing Techniques for Financial
Portfolio Optimisation
Wei Yan, Martin D. Sewell, Christopher
D. Clack
11:30-11:55 GP Age-layer and Crossover Effects in Bid-Offer Spread
Prediction
Amy Willis, Suneer Patel, Christopher
D. Clack
11:55-12:20 Mono-Commodity Network Flow Optimization by Evolutionary
Algorithms
Daniel Delahaye, Stéphane Puechmorel
Evolutionary Computation
in Practice-1:
Room: Atlanta C
Session Chair:
10:40-12:20
Competitions
Room: Buckhead
Session Chair:
10:40-12:20
ALIFE-1: Best Paper
Nominees
Room: Lenox
Session Chair:
10:40-11:05 The Influence of Scaling and Assortativity on Takeover
Times in Scale-Free Topologies 
Joshua L Payne, Margaret J Eppstein
11:05-11:30 Designing Multi-Rover Emergent Specialization 
Geoff Nitschke, Martijn Schut
11:30-11:55 A Multi-scaled Approach to Artificial Life Simulation
With P Systems and Dissipative Particle
Dynamics 
James Smaldon, Jonathan Blakes,
Natalio Krasnogor, Doron Lancet
11:55-12:20 Modular Neuroevolution for Multilegged Locomotion 
Vinod K Valsalam, Risto Miikkulainen
ESEP-1: Best paper
nominees
Room: Roswell
Session Chair: Nikolaus Hansen
(Evolution Strategies, Evolutionary Programming)
10:40-11:05 Why Noise May be Good 
Silja Meyer-Nieberg, Hans-Georg Beyer
11:05-11:30 Functionally Specialized CMA-ES: A Modification of CMA-ES
based on the Specialization of the
Functions of Covariance Matrix Adaptation
and Step Size Adaptation 
Youhei Akimoto, Jun Sakuma, Shigenobu Kobayashi,
Isao Ono
11:30-11:55 Aiming for a theoretically tractable CSA variant by means
of empirical investigations 
Jens Jägersküpper, Mike Preuss
EMO-2: Robustness and
Scalability Issues
Room: Peachtree
Session Chair: El-Ghazali
Talbi (INRIA)
10:40-11:05 AMGA: An
Archive-based Micro Genetic Algorithm
for Multi-objective Optimization
Santosh Tiwari, Patrick Koch, Georges Fadel,
Kalyanmoy Deb
11:05-11:30 Embedded Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization for
Worst Case Robustness
Gideon Avigad, Jürgen Branke
11:30-11:55 Effectiveness of Scalability Improvement Attempts on
the Performance of NSGA-II for Many-Objective
Problems
Hisao Ishibuchi, Noritaka Tsukamoto,
Yasuhiro Hitotsuyanagi, Yusuke Nojima
11:55-12:20 A Robust Evolutionary Framework for Multi-Objective Optimization
Kalyanmoy Deb
GP-3: Techniques
Room: Georgia West
Session Chair: Steven Gustafson
(GE Global Research)
14:00-14:25 Accelerating Genetic Programming by Frequent Subtree
Mining
Yoshitaka Kameya, Junichi Kumagai,
Yoshiaki Kurata
14:25-14:50 Using Differential Evolution for Symbolic Regression
and Numerical Constant Creation
Brian M Cerny, Peter C Nelson, Chi Zhou
14:50-15:15 An Analysis of Multi-Sampled Issue and No-Replacement
Tournament Selection
Huayang Xie, Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae,
Mark Johnson
15:15-15:40 Exploiting The Path Of Least Resistance In Evolution
Gearoid Murphy, Conor Ryan
GA-2: GA Theory and
Interactive GAs
Room: Georgia East
Session Chair: Xavier Llorà (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign)
14:00-14:25 Theory of the Simple Genetic Algorithm with alpha-Selection
Andre Neubauer
14:25-14:50 Theoretical Analysis of Genetic Algorithms in Noisy Environments
based on a Markov Model
Takehiko Nakama
14:50-15:15 Comparing Global and Local Mutations on Bit Strings
Benjamin Doerr, Thomas Jansen, Christian Klein
15:15-15:40 Graph-Theoretic Measure for Active
iGAs: Interaction Sizing and Parallel
Evaluation Ensemble
Xavier Llorà, Noriko Imafuji Yasui,
David E Goldberg
Human- Competitive
Results
Room: Atlanta A
Session Chair:
14:00-15:40
RWA-3: Optimization
I
Room: Atlanta B
Session Chair:
14:00-14:25 The Gene Regulatory Network: An Application to Optimal
Coverage in Sensor Networks
Sanjoy Das, Praveen Koduru,
Xinye Cai, Stephen Welch, Venkatesh Sarangan
14:25-14:50 Analysis of Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms to
Optimize Dynamic Data Types in Embedded
Systems
J. Ignacio Hidalgo, José L. Risco-Martín,
David Atienza, Juan Lanchares
14:50-15:15 Efficiency Optimization of a Multi-Pump Booster System
Gerulf K. M. Pedersen, Zhenyu Yang
15:15-15:40 An Evolutionary Design Technique for Collective Communications
on Optimal Diameter-Degree Networks
Jiri Jaros, Vaclav Dvorak
Evolutionary Computation
in Practice-2:
Room: Atlanta C
Session Chair:
14:00-15:40
ALIFE-2: Evolutionary
Robotics
Room: Buckhead
Session Chair:
14:00-14:25 Co-evolution of Active Sensing and Locomotion Gaits ofSimulated
Snake-like Robot
Ivan Tanev, Katsunori Shimohara
14:25-14:50 Neuro-Evolution for a Gathering and Collective Construction
Task
G.S. Nitschke, D.W.F Krevelen
14:50-15:15 Evolving Cooperative Control on Sparsely Distributed
Tasks for UAV Teams Without Global
Communication
Gregory J Barlow, Choong
K Oh, Stephen F Smith
EDA-1: Best paper nominees
Room: Lenox
Session Chair: Martin Pelikan
(University of Missouri in St. Louis)
14:00-14:25 Using Previous Models to Bias Structural Learning in
the Hierarchical BOA 
Mark W Hauschild, Martin Pelikan,
Kumara Sastry, David E. Goldberg
14:25-14:50 On the Effectiveness of Distributions Estimated by Probabilistic Model Building 
Chung-Yao Chuang, Ying-ping Chen
14:50-15:15 From Mating Pool Distributions to Model Overfitting 
Claudio F Lima, Fernando G Lobo, Martin Pelikan
ACO-2: Ant Colony Optimization
Room: Roswell
Session Chair:
14:00-14:25 Scaling Ant Colony Optimization with Hierarchical Reinforcement
Learning Partitioning
Erik J. Dries, Gilbert L. Peterson
14:25-14:50 Enhanced Generalized Ant Programming (EGAP)
Amirali Salehi-Abari, Tony White
14:50-15:15 A Multi-Objective Ant Colony Approach for Pareto-Optimization
Using Dynamic Programming
Sascha Häckel, Marco Fischer, David Zechel,
Tobias Teich
15:15-15:40 Multivariate Ant Colony Optimization in Continuous Search
Spaces
Fabricio Olivetti de Franca, Guilherme
Palermo Coelho, Romis R. de Faissol
Attux, Fernando J. Von Zuben
GDS-1: Best Paper Nominees
Room: Peachtree
Session Chair: R. Paul Wiegand
(Institute for Simulation and Training
/ UCF)
14:00-14:25 Generative Encoding for Multiagent Systems 
David B. D'Ambrosio, Kenneth O. Stanley
14:25-14:50 A Cellular Model for the Evolutionary Development of
Lightweight Material with an Inner
Structure 
Till Steiner, Yaochu Jin, Bernhard Sendhoff
GP-1: Best paper nominees
Room: Georgia West
Session Chair: Julian F.
Miller (University of York)
16:10-16:35 Parsimony Pressure Made Easyød: 
Riccardo Poli, Nicholas
Freitag McPhee
16:35-17:00 The Impact of Population Size on Code Growth in GP:Analysis
and Empirical Validation 
Riccardo Poli, Nicholas
Freitag McPhee, Leonardo Vanneschi
17:00-17:25 Rapid Prediction of Optimum Population Size in Genetic
Programming Using a Novel Genotype
- Fitness Correlation 
David C Wedge, Douglas B
Kell
17:25-17:50 Learning to Recognise Mental Activities: Genetic Programming
of Stateful Classifiers for Brain-Computer
Interfacing 
Alexandros Agapitos, Matthew Dyson,
Simon M Lucas, Francisco Sepulveda
GA-3: Parallel GAs,
Performance Analysis and NK Landscapes
Room: Georgia East
Session Chair: Kumara Sastry
(Intel Corp)
16:10-16:35 Empirical Investigations on Parallel Competent Genetic
Algorithms
Miwako Tsuji, Masaharu Munetomo,
Kiyoshi Akama
16:35-17:00 Voronoi-Initializated Island Models
for Solving Real-Coded Deceptive Problems
Santiago Muelas,
José M Peña, Víctor Robles, Antonio LaTorre
17:00-17:25 An Enhanced Statistical Approach for Evolutionary Algorithm
Comparison
Eduardo G. Carrano, Elizabeth F. Wanner,
Ricardo H.C. Takahashi
17:25-17:50 Analysis of Estimation of Distribution Algorithms and
Genetic Algorithms on NK Landscapes
Martin Pelikan
BIO-3
Room: Atlanta A
Session Chair:
16:10-17:50
RWA-4: Optimization
II
Room: Atlanta B
Session Chair:
16:10-16:35 Optimizing Hierarchical Menus by Genetic Algorithm and
Simulated Annealing
Shouichi Matsui, Seiji Yamada
16:35-17:00 Estimation of Pump-Curves using Genetic Algorithms
Gerulf K. M. Pedersen, Zhenyu Yang
17:00-17:25 Evolutionary Algorithms for Automated Drug Design towards
Target Molecule Properties
Johannes W. Kruisselbrink, Thomas Bäck,
Ad P. IJzerman, Eelke van der Horst
17:25-17:50 Discovering Performance Bounds for Grid Scheduling by
using Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization
Christian Grimme, Joachim Lepping,
Alexander Papaspyrou
COEVO
Room: Atlanta C
Session Chair:
16:10-16:35 An Empirical Comparison of Evolution and Coevolution
for Designing Artificial Neural Network
Game Players 
Min Shi
16:35-17:00 Managing Team-Based Problem Solving with Symbiotic Bid-Based
Genetic Programming
P. Lichodzijewski, M. I.
Heywood
17:00-17:25 A No-Free-Lunch Framework for Coevolution
Travis Service, Daniel Tauritz
17:25-17:50 Fitnessless Coevolution
Wojciech Jaskowski, Krzysztof Krawiec,
Bartosz Wieloch
ALIFE-3: Multi-Agent
Systems
Room: Buckhead
Session Chair:
16:10-16:35 Individual-Based Artificial Ecosystems for Design and
Optimization
Srinivasa Shivakar Vulli, Sanjeev Agarwal
16:35-17:00 Multi-Agent Task Allocation: Learning When to Say No
Adam Campbell, Annie S. Wu, Randall Shumaker
17:00-17:25 Selection for Group-Level Efficiency Leads to Self-Regulation
of Population Size
Benjamin E Beckmann, Philip K McKinley,
Charles Ofria
17:25-17:50 Modeling Ant Colony Foraging in Dynamic and ConfinedEnvironment
Elton Bernardo Bandeira de Melo, Aluízio
Fausto Ribeiro Araújo
EDA-3: Multimodal and
Dynamic Optimization
Room: Lenox
Session Chair: Claudio M
F Lima (University of Algarve)
16:10-16:35 UMDAs for Dynamic Optimization Problems
Carlos M. Fernandes, Cláudio Lima,
Agostinho C. Rosa
16:35-17:00 Investigating Restricted Tournament Replacement in ECGA
for Non-Stationary Environments
Claudio F Lima, Carlos Fernandes,
Fernando G Lobo
17:00-17:25 Going for the Big Fishes: Discovering and Combining Large
Neutral and Massively Multimodal Building-Blocks
with Model Based Macro-Mutation
David Iclanzan, D. Dumitrescu
Late Breaking Papers-1
Room: Roswell
Session Chair:
16:10-16:25 Opportunistic Evolution: Efficient Evolutionary Computation
on Large-Scale Computational Grids
Keith Sullivan, Sean Luke, Curt Larock,
Sean Cier, Steven Armentrout
16:25-16:40 Evolutionary Facial Feature Selection
Aaron K Baughman
16:40-16:55 Attack Analysis & Bio-Inspired Security Framework
for IPMultimedia Subsystem
Aliya Awais, Muddassar Farooq, Muhammad
Younus Javed
16:55-17:10 A Fuzzy-Genetic Approach to Network Intrusion Detection
Terrence P. Fries
17:10-17:25 Developing Neural Structure of Two Agents that Play Checkers
Using Cartesian Genetic Programming
Gul Muhammad Khan, Julian Francis
Miller, David M. Halliday
GDS-2: Generative and
Developmental Systems
Room: Peachtree
Session Chair: Kenneth Stanley
(University of Central Florida)
16:10-16:35 An Evolvability-enhanced Artificial
Embryogeny for Generating Network Structures
Hidenori Komatsu, Yasuhiro Hashimoto,
Yu Chen, Hirotada Ohashi
16:35-17:00 Measures of Complexity for Artificial Embryogeny
Taras Kowaliw
17:00-17:25 Evolutionary Design of Dynamic SwarmScapes
Namrata Khemka, Scott Novakowski,
Gerald Hushlak, Christian Jacob
17:25-17:50 Phenotypic, Developmental and Computational Resources:
Scaling in Artificial Development
Gunnar Tufte

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