Paper Presentation Schedule
 Monday 14        Tuesday 15        Wednesday 16  

 

= 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  

 

TUESDAY JULY 15

 

Keynote: PZ Myers

Room: Georgia West

Session Chair:                                                                       

8:30-10:10        

 

GBML-1: Applications of Genetics-Based Machine Learning

Room: Georgia West

Session Chair: Pier Luca Lanzi (Politecnico di Milano)                                     

10:40-11:05        Context-Dependent Predictions and Cognitive Arm Control with XCSF  

        Martin V Butz, Oliver  Herbort

 

11:05-11:30        An Efficient SVM-GA Feature Selection Model for Large Healthcare Databases

        Rick  Chow, Wei  Zhong, Michael  Blackmon, Richard  Stolz, Marsha  Dowell

 

11:30-11:55        Genetic-Guided Semi-Supervised Clustering Algorithm with Instance-Level Constraints

        Yi  Hong, Sam  Kwong, Hui  Xiong, Qingsheng  Ren

 

GA-4: Applications 1

Room: Georgia East

Session Chair: Conor Ryan (University of Limerick)                                         

10:40-11:05        A Transformation-Based Approach to Static Multiprocessor Scheduling

        Alan  Sheahan, Conor  Ryan

 

11:05-11:30        Adapting Palettes to Color Vision Deficiencies by Genetic Algorithm

        Luigi  Troiano, Cosimo  Birtolo, Maria  Miranda

 

11:30-11:55        On the Genetic Programming of Time-Series Predictors for Supply Chain Management

        Alexandros  Agapitos, Matthew  Dyson, Jenya  Kovalchuk, Simon Mark Lucas

 

11:55-12:20       

        Iraj  Mahdavi, Mohammad Mahdi  Paydar, Armaghan  Heidarzade, Maghsud  Soleimanpur

 

ACO-3: Artificial Immune Systems and Probability

Room: Atlanta A

Session Chair:                                                                       

10:40-11:05        Improving Accuracy of Immune-inspired Malware Detectors by using Intelligent Features

        M. Zubair  Shafiq, Syed Ali  Khayam, Muddassar  Farooq

 

11:05-11:30        Optimizing Task Schedules Using An Artificial Immune System Approach

        Han  Yu 

 

11:30-11:55        A Sense of Danger: Dendritic Cells Inspired Artificial Immune System for MANET Security

        Nauman  Mazhar, Muddassar  Farooq

 

11:55-12:20        Discriminating Self from Non-Self with Finite Mixtures of Multivariate Bernoulli Distributions

        Thomas  Stibor 

 

RWA-1: Best Paper Nominees

Room: Atlanta B

Session Chair: Daniel Howard (QinetiQ)                                                           

10:40-11:05        Speeding Online Synthesis via Enforced Selecto-Recombination  

        Shunsuke  Saruwatari, Xavier  Llora, Noriko Imafuji Yasui, Hiroshi  Tamura, Kumara  Sastry, David E. Goldberg

 

11:05-11:30        Evolved Bayesian Networks as a Versatile Alternative to Partin Tables for Prostate Cancer Management  

        Ratiba  Kabli, John  McCall, Frank  Herrmann, Eng  Ong

 

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