Best paper award winners

Track: Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence - ACO+SI

SPSO2011 - Analysis of stability, local convergence, and rotation sensitivity
Mohammad Reza Bonyadi, Zbigniew Michalewicz (The University of Adelaide)

Track: Artificial Immune Systems - AIS

On the Runtime Analysis of Stochastic Ageing Mechanisms
Pietro S. Oliveto, Dirk Sudholt (The University of Sheffield)

Track: Artificial Life, Robotics, and Evolvable Hardware - ALIFE

A Novel Human-Computer Collaboration: Combining Novelty Search with Interactive Evolution
Brian Woolley (Air Force Institute of Technology), Kenneth Stanley (University of Central Florida)

Track: Digital Entertainment and Arts - DETA

Evolving Multimodal Behavior With Modular Neural Networks in Ms. Pac-Man
Jacob Schrum, Risto Miikkulainen (University of Texas at Austin)

Track: Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics - ECOM

Revised Analysis of the (1+1) EA for the Minimum Spanning Tree Problem
Carsten Witt (Technical University of Denmark)

Track: Evolutionary Machine Learning - EML

Salient Object Detection Using Learning Classifier Systems that Compute Action Mappings
Muhammad Iqbal, Syed Naqvi, Will Neil Browne, Christopher Hollitt, Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington)

Track: Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization - EMO

Inverted PBI in MOEA/D and its Impact on the Search Performance on Multi and Many-Objective Optimization
Hiroyuki Sato (The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo)

Track: Genetic Algorithms - GA

Parameter-less Population Pyramid
Brian W. Goldman, William F. Punch (Michigan State University)

Track: Genetic Programming - GP

Behavioral Programming: A Broader and More Detailed Take on Semantic GP
Krzysztof Krawiec (Poznan University of Technology), Una-May O'Reilly (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Track: Parallel Evolutionary Systems - PES

Design and Analysis of Adaptive Migration Intervals in Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms
Andrea Mambrini (University of Birmingham), Dirk Sudholt (University of Sheffield)

Track: Real World Applications - RWA

Multi-Objective Routing Optimisation for Battery Powered Wireless Sensor Mesh Networks
Jonathan Edward Fieldsend, Richard Everson, Alma As-Aad, Mohammad Rahat (University of Exeter)