Papers Nominated for Best Paper Awards

Track	Title	Authors	Author 1 email
ACO-SI	A Few Ants are Enough: ACO with Iteration-Best Update	Frank Neumann Dirk Sudholt Carsten Witt	fnempi-inf.mpg.de
ACO-SI	Analysis of Algorithmic Components for Multiobjective Ant Colony Optimization: A Case Study on the Biobjective TSP	Manuel López-Ibáñez Thomas Stützle	manuel.lopez-ibanezulb.ac.be
ALIFE	Resource Abundance Promotes the Evolution of Public Goods Cooperation	Brian D Connelly Benjamin E Beckmann Philip K McKinley	connel42cse.msu.edu
ALIFE	Evolution of Vision Capabilities in Embodied Virtual Creatures	Marcin L. Pilat Christian Jacob	mpilatucalgary.ca
ALIFE	Crossing the Reality Gap in Evolutionary Robotics by promoting Transferable Controllers	Sylvain Koos Jean-Baptiste Mouret Stéphane Doncieux	koosisir.upmc.fr
BIO	P System Model Optimisation by Means of\\Evolutionary Based Search Algorithms	Carlos García-Martínez Claudio Lima Jamie Twycross Natalio Krasnogor Manuel Lozano	cgarciauco.es
BIO	The Application of Michigan-Style Learning Classifier Systems to Address Genetic Heterogeneity and Epistasis in Association Studies	Ryan Urbanowicz Jason Moore	ryan.urbanowiczdartmouth.edu
COM	An Efficient Algorithm for Generalized Minimum Spanning Tree Problem	He Jiang	hejiangcems.uvm.edu
COM	Consultant-Guided Search - A New Metaheuristic for Combinatorial Optimization Problems	Serban Iordache	siordacheacm.org
COM	A Hierarchical Cooperative Evolutionary Algorithm	Shelly Xiaonan Wu Wolfgang Banzhaf	xiaonanmun.ca
EDA	The Anticipated Mean Shift and Cluster Registration in Mixture-based EDAs for Multi-Objective Optimization	Peter A.N. Bosman	peter.bosmancwi.nl
EDA	Effective Structure Learning for EDA via L1-Regularized Bayesian Networks	Jiadong Yang Hua Xu Yunpeng Cai Peifa Jia	orientboydfgmail.com
EDA	Entropy-Based Substructural Local Search for Bayesian Optimization Algorithm	Hoang Ngoc Luong Hai Thi Thanh Nguyen Chang Wook Ahn	ngochoangskku.edu
ESEP	Active Covariance Matrix Adaptation for the (1+1)-CMA-ES	Dirk V. Arnold Nikolaus Hansen	dirkcs.dal.ca
ESEP	Adaptive Strategy Selection in Differential Evolution	Wenyin Gong Álvaro Fialho Zhihua Cai	cug11100304yahoo.com.cn
ESEP	On the Analysis of Self-Adaptive Evolution Strategies on Elliptic Model: First Results	Alexander Melkozerov Hans-Georg Beyer	ametu.tusur.ru
ESEP	Exponential Natural Evolution Strategies	Tobias Glasmachers Tom Schaul Yi Sun Daan Wierstra Jürgen Schmidhuber	tobiasidsia.ch
EMO	A Grid-Based Fitness Strategy for Evolutionary Many-Objective Optimization	Miqing Li Jinhua Zheng Ruimin Shen Ke Li Qizhao Yuan	limit1008126.com
EMO	Integrating Decision Space Diversity into Hypervolume-based Multiobjective Search	Tamara Ulrich Johannes Bader Eckart Zitzler	tamara.ulrichtik.ee.ethz.ch
EMO	The Maximum Hypervolume Set Yields Near-optimal Approximation	Karl Bringmann Tobias Friedrich	karl-bringmanngmx.de
GDS	Image Compression of Natural Images Using Artificial Gene Regulatory Networks	Martin Albrecht Trefzer Tuze Kuyucu Julian Francis Miller Andy Tyrrell	mt540ohm.york.ac.uk
GDS	Transfer Learning through Indirect Encoding	Phillip Verbancsics Kenneth O. Stanley	verbknights.ucf.edu
GDS	Evolving the Placement and Density of Neurons in the HyperNEAT Substrate	Sebastian Risi Joel Lehman Kenneth O. Stanley	sebastian.risigmail.com
GDS	The Baldwin Effect in Developing Neural Networks	Keith Linn Downing	keithdidi.ntnu.no
GA	Phenotype Feedback Genetic Algorithm Operators for Heuristic Encoding of Snakes within Hypercubes	Benjamin P Carlson Dean F Hougen	benjamin.carlsonou.edu
GA	NK Landscapes, Problem Difficulty, and Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms	Martin Pelikan	pelikancs.umsl.edu
GP	Abstract Functions and Lifetime Learning in Genetic Programming for Symbolic Regression	Raja Muhammad Atif Azad Conor Ryan	atif.azadul.ie
GP	The Estimation of Hölderian Regularity using Genetic Programming	Leonardo Trujillo Pierrick Legrand Jacques Lévy-Véhel	leonardo.trujillo.ttlgmail.com
GBML	Speeding Up the Evaluation of Evolutionary Learning Systems using GPGPUs	Maria A. Franco Natalio Krasnogor Jaume Bacardit	mxfcs.nott.ac.uk
GBML	How XCS Deals with Rarities in Domains with Continuous Attributes	Albert Orriols-Puig Xavier Llorá David E Goldberg	aorriolssalle.url.edu
GBML	Negative Selection Algorithms Without Generating Detectors	Johannes Textor Maciej Liśkiewicz	textortcs.uni-luebeck.de
PS	The Benefit of Migration in Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms	Jörg Lässig Dirk Sudholt	jlaicsi.berkeley.edu
PS	Shared Memory Genetic Algorithms in a Multi-Agent Context	Dana Vrajitoru	danavcs.iusb.edu
PS	FPGA Implementation of Population Based Scatter Search	Maxwell Walton Gary Grewal Gerarda Darlington	waltonmuoguelph.ca
RWA	A Neuro-Evolutionary Approach to Micro Aerial Vehicle Control	Max Salichon Kagan Tumer	max.salichongmail.com
RWA	Robust Neuro-Control for A Micro Quadrotor	Jack Shepherd Kagan Tumer	shephejaengr.orst.edu
RWA	Optimization of the Hölder Image Descriptor using a Genetic Algorithm	Leonardo Trujillo Pierrick Legrand Gustavo Olague Cynthia Pérez	leonardo.trujillo.ttlgmail.com
RWA	Evolutionary-based Conflict-free Scheduling of Collective communications on Spidergon NoCs	Jiri Jaros Vaclav Dvorak	jarosjirfit.vutbr.cz
SBSE	Empirically Studying the Role of Selection Operators During Search-Based Test Suite Prioritization	Gregory Martin Kapfhammer Alexander P Conrad Robert S Roos	gkapfhamallegheny.edu
SBSE	Search-Based Test Data Generation from Stateflow Statecharts	Andreas Windisch	andreas.windischdcaiti.com
Theory	Black Box Search by Unbiased Variation	Per Kristian Lehre Carsten Witt	p.k.lehrecs.bham.ac.uk
Theory	Two Characterizations of Success of the Metropolis Algorithm for Optimization	Swagato Sanyal Raja S Somenath Biswas	swagatoscse.iitk.ac.in
Theory	Multiplicative Drift Analysis	Benjamin Doerr Daniel Johannsen Carola Winzen	doerrmpi-inf.mpg.de
Theory	Ant Colony Optimization for Stochastic Shortest Path Problems	Christian Horoba Dirk Sudholt	horobals2.cs.tu-dortmund.de