 Best Paper Award Winners
Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
An Incremental ACOR with Local Search for Continuous Optimization Problems
Tianjun Liao (IRIDIA, CoDE, Universite Libre de Bruxelles), Marco Montes de Oca (IRIDIA, CoDE, Universite Libre de Bruxelles), Dogan Aydin (Ege University), Thomas Stützle (IRIDIA, CoDE, Universite Libre de Bruxelles), Marco Dorigo (IRIDIA, CoDE, Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Artificial Life/Robotics/Evolvable Hardware
Spontaneous Evolution of Structural Modularity in Robot Neural Network Controllers
Josh Bongard (University of Vermont)
Bioinformatics, Computational, Systems, and Synthetic Biology
A Genetic Algorithm to Enhance Transmembrane Helices Topology Prediction Using Compositional Index
Nazar Zaki (UAE University), Salah Bouktif (UAE University), Sanja Molnar (UAE University)
Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts
Interactively Evolving Harmonies through Functional Scaffolding
Amy Hoover (University of Central Florida), Paul Szerlip (University of Central Florida), Kenneth Stanley (University of Central Florida)
Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics
A Cooperative Tree-based Hybrid GA-B&B Approach for Solving Challenging Permutation-based Problems
Malika Mehdi (University of Luxembourg & INRIA Lille), Jean-Claude Charr (INRIA Lille Nord-Europe - University of Lille), Nouredine Melab (INRIA Lille Nord-Europe - University of Lille), EL-Ghazali Talbi (INRIA Lille Nord-Europe - University of Lille), Pascal Bouvry (University of Luxembourg)
Estimation of Distribution Algorithms
Hierarchical Allelic Pairwise Independent Functions
David Iclanzan (Sapientia Hungaryan University of Transylvania)
Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization
Improved S-CDAS using Crossover Controlling the Number of Crossed Genes for Many-objective Optimization
Hiroyuki Sato (The University of Electro-Communications), Hernan Aguirre (Shinshu University), Kiyoshi Tanaka (Shinshu University)
Evolution Strategies and Evolutionary Programming
Local-Meta-Model CMA-ES for Partially Separable Functions
Zyed Bouzarkouna (IFP Energies nouvelles), Anne Auger (INRIA), Didier Yu Ding (IFP Energies nouvelles)
Genetic Algorithms
How Crossover Helps in Pseudo-Boolean Optimization
Timo Kötzing (Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics), Dirk Sudholt (University of Birmingham), Madeleine Theile (Technische Universität Berlin)
Genetics Based Machine Learning
Modelling the Initialisation Stage of the ALKR Representation for Discrete Domains and GABIL Encoding
Maria Franco (University of Nottingham), Natalio Krasnogor (University of Nottingham), Jaume Bacardit (University of Nottingham)
Genetic Programming
Rethinking Multilevel Selection in Genetic Programming
Shelly Wu (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Wolfgang Banzhaf (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Generative and Developmental Systems
On the Relationships between Synaptic Plasticity and Generative Systems
Paul Tonelli (ISIR, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, CNRS UMR 7222), Jean-Baptiste Mouret (ISIR, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, CNRS UMR 7222)
Real World Applications
RankDE: Learning a Ranking Function for Information Retrieval using Differential Evolution
Danushka Bollegala (The University of Tokyo), Nasimul Noman (The University of Tokyo), Hitoshi Iba (The University of Tokyo)
Search-Based Software Engineering
Searching for Invariants using Genetic Programming and Mutation Testing
Sam Ratcliffe (University of York), David White (University of York), John Clark (University of York)
Self-* Search
Policy Matrix Evolution for Generation of Heuristics
Ender Ozcan (University of Nottingham), Andrew Parkes (University of Nottingham)
Theory
An Analysis on Recombination in Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimization
Chao Qian (Nanjing University), Yang Yu (Nanjing University), Zhihua Zhou (Nanjing University)
Important Dates:
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February 9th, 2011
11:59pm Pacific Standard time |
| Notification of paper acceptance: |
March 23, 2011 |
| Camera-ready submission: |
April 18, 2011 |
| Registration deadline for presenting authors : |
May 2, 2011 |
Call for Papers
2011 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
Tuesday, Saturday July 12 –16, 2011 Dublin, Ireland
Largest Conference in the Field of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation.
A recombination of the 20th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA) and the 16th Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP)
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