GECCO '16 Companion- Proceedings of the 2016 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion - TUTORIALS

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TUTORIAL SESSION: Introduction Tutorials

Introduction to Complex Networks

Evolutionary Computation: A Unified Approach

GECCO 2016 Tutorial on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

Evolving Neural Networks

Genetic Programming: A Tutorial Introduction

Hyper-Heuristics

Introducing Rule-Based Machine Learning: Capturing Complexity

Introduction to Randomized Continuous Optimization

Introductory Statistics for EC: A Visual Approach

Model-Based Evolutionary Algorithms

Representations for Evolutionary Algorithms

Runtime Analysis of Population-based Evolutionary Algorithms

Theory for Non-Theoreticians

TUTORIAL SESSION: Advanced Tutorials

Biased Ranom-Key Genetic Algorithms: An Advanced Tutorial

Blind No More: Deterministic Partition Crossover and Deterministic Improving Moves

CMA-ES and Advanced Adaptation Mechanisms

Constraint-Handling Techniques used with Evolutionary Algorithms

Expressive Genetic Programming: Concepts and Applications

Generative and Developmental Systems Tutorial

Semantic Genetic Programming

Simulation Optimisation: Tutorial

Solving Complex Problems with Coevolutionary Algorithms

Theory of Swarm Intelligence

Visualization in Multiobjective Optimization

TUTORIAL SESSION: Specialized Tutorials

Medical Applications of Evolutionary Computation

Automatic (Offline) Configuration of Algorithms

Cloudy Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms

Intelligent Systems for Smart Cities

Evolutionary Computation and Games

Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection and Feature Construction

Evolutionary Computation and Cryptology

WORKSHOP SESSION: IAM 2016 Workshop

IAM 2016 Chairs' Welcome & Organization

Optimising a Waste Heat Recovery System using Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm

Multi-Line Batch Scheduling by Similarity

Granular-Based Dimension Reduction for Solar Radiation Prediction Using Adaptive Memory Programming

Criticality of Response Time in the usage of Metaheuristics in Industry

WORKSHOP SESSION: GECCO Workshop on Measuring and Promoting Diversity in Evolutionary Algorithms

MPDEA 2016 Chairs' Welcome & Organization

Promoting Diversity in Evolutionary Algorithms: an Updated Bibliography

Maintaining Diversity in The Bounded Pareto-Set: A Case of Opposition Based Solution Generation Scheme

Population Diversity as a Selection Factor: Improving Fitness by Increasing Diversity

Harnessing Phenotypic Diversity towards Multiple Independent Objectives

On Synergies between Diversity and Task Decomposition in Constructing Complex Systems with GP

A Modified Grid Diversity Operator for Discrete Optimization and its Application to Wind Farm Layout Optimization Problems

Effects of Lexicase and Tournament Selection on Diversity Recovery and Maintenance

WORKSHOP SESSION: GECCO'16 Student Workshop

GECCO'16 Student Workshop Chairs' Welcome & Organization

Integrating Local Search within neat-GP

Simulated Annealing as a Pre-Processing Step for Force-Directed Graph Drawing

A Two Stages Invasive Weed Optimization via a New Clustering Strategy

FdDCA: A Novel Fuzzy Deterministic Dendritic Cell Algorithm

Parallel SMS-EMOA for Many-Objective Optimization Problems

Evolution of Layer Based Neural Networks: Preliminary Report

Random Tree Generator for an FPGA-based Genetic Programming System

Small-Moves Based Mutation For Pick-Up And Delivery Problem

Variable Selection for Multivariate Calibration in Chemometrics: A Real-World Application with Building Blocks Disruption Problem

Adding Program Length Bias to the Lexicase and Tournament Selection Algorithms

Bee-Inspired Landmark Recognition in Robotic Navigation

WORKSHOP SESSION: Evolution in Cognition 2016

Evolution in Cognition 2016 Chairs' Welcome

The Evolution of Artificial Neurogenesis

An Attractor Network-Based Model with Darwinian Dynamics

Darwinian Dynamics of Embodied Chaotic Exploration

Considering Memory Networks in the LTM Structure of the Multilevel Darwinist Brain

Gaining Insight into Quality Diversity

Neuroevolutionary Motivational Engine for Autonomous Robots

WORKSHOP SESSION: SecDef Workshop 2016

SecDef Workshop 2016 Chairs' Welcome & Organization

Automatic Course of Action Generation using Soft Data for Maritime Domain Awareness

Multi-UAV Path Planning with Parallel Genetic Algorithms on CUDA Architecture

Dynamics of Adversarial Co-evolution in Tax Non-Compliance Detection

Initiating a Moving Target Network Defense with a Real-time Neuro-evolutionary Detector

An Incremental Ensemble Evolved by using Genetic Programming to Efficiently Detect Drifts in Cyber Security Datasets

WORKSHOP SESSION: Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures for Evolutionary Computation

GECCO'16 Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures for Evolutionary Computation Chairs' Welcome

Best Order Sort: A New Algorithm to Non-dominated Sorting for Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization

Efficient Removal of Points with Smallest Crowding Distance in Two-dimensional Incremental Non-dominated Sorting

WORKSHOP SESSION: Genetic Improvement 2016

Genetic Improvement 2016 Chairs' Welcome & Organization

Benchmarking Genetically Improved BarraCUDA on Epigenetic Methylation NGS datasets and nVidia GPUs

Guiding Unconstrained Genetic Improvement

Genetic Improvement for Code Obfuscation

Speeding up the Proof Strategy in Formal Software Verification

Optimising Energy Consumption Heuristically on Android Mobile Phones

Automatic Improvement of Apache Spark Queries using Semantics-preserving Program Reduction

Genetic Programming: From Design to Improved Implementation

GP vs GI: If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them

Evals is Not Enough: Why We Should Report Wall-clock Time

Evolutionary Optimization of Compiler Flag Selection by Learning and Exploiting Flags Interactions

WORKSHOP SESSION: BBOB-2016

GECCO'16 Black-Box Optimization Benchmarking Workshop (BBOB-2016): Workshop Chairs' Welcome Message

Anytime Bi-Objective Optimization with a Hybrid Multi-Objective CMA-ES (HMO-CMA-ES)

Unbounded Population MO-CMA-ES for the Bi-Objective BBOB Test Suite

Evaluating the Population Size Adaptation Mechanism for CMA-ES on the BBOB Noiseless Testbed

Evaluating the Population Size Adaptation Mechanism for CMA-ES on the BBOB Noisy Testbed

Hypervolume-Based DIRECT for Multi-Objective Optimisation

A MATLAB Toolbox for Surrogate-Assisted Multi-Objective Optimization: A Preliminary Study

Benchmarking the Pure Random Search on the Bi-objective BBOB-2016 Testbed

The Impact of Variation Operators on the Performance of SMS-EMOA on the Bi-objective BBOB-2016 Test Suite

Benchmarking MATLAB's gamultiobj (NSGA-II) on the Bi-objective BBOB-2016 Test Suite

Benchmarking RM-MEDA on the Bi-objective BBOB-2016 Test Suite

Performance of the DEMO Algorithm on the Bi-objective BBOB Test Suite

The Impact of Search Volume on the Performance of RANDOMSEARCH on the Bi-objective BBOB-2016 Test Suite

WORKSHOP SESSION: SAEOpt 2016

Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Optimisation (SAEOpt'16) Chairs' Welcome & Organization

Mining Markov Network Surrogates for Value-Added Optimisation

Adaptation of Surrogate Tasks for Bipedal Walk Optimization

Fitness Estimation Strategy Assisted Competitive Swarm Optimizer for High Dimensional Expensive Problems

Uncertainty in Surrogate Models

Data Driven Evolutionary Optimization of Complex Systems: Big Data Versus Small Data

WORKSHOP SESSION: Workshop Evolutionary Computation in Computational Structural Biology

Workshop Evolutionary Computation in Computational Structural Biology 2016 Chairs' Welcome

Using Crowding-Distance in a Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm for Protein Structure Prediction

Path-based Guidance of an Evolutionary Algorithm in Mapping a Fitness Landscape and its Connectivity

An Ecologically-inspired Parallel Approach Applied to the Protein Structure Reconstruction from Contact Maps

Protein Folding Modeling with Neural Cellular Automata Using Rosetta

WORKSHOP SESSION: EvoSoft 2016

Evolutionary Computation Software Systems (EvoSoft) Workshop 2016 Chairs' Welcome & Organization

elephant56: Design and Implementation of a Parallel Genetic Algorithms Framework on Hadoop MapReduce

NodIO: A Framework and Architecture for Pool-based Evolutionary Computation

Optimization Knowledge Center: A Decision Support System for Heuristic Optimization

WORKSHOP SESSION: ECADA 2016

ECADA 2016 Chairs' Welcome

Exploration of Metaheuristics through Automatic Algorithm Configuration Techniques and Algorithmic Frameworks

Evolution Evolves with Autoconstruction

Connecting Automatic Parameter Tuning, Genetic Programming as a Hyper-heuristic, and Genetic Improvement Programming

Why Asynchronous Parallel Evolution is the Future of Hyper-heuristics: A CDCL SAT Solver Case Study

WORKSHOP SESSION: MedGEC'16

MedGEC'16 Chairs' Welcome

A Multi-Objective Approach to Predicting Motor and Cognitive Deficit in Parkinson's Disease Patients

Exploring the Application of Hybrid Evolutionary Computation Techniques to Physical Activity Recognition

An Optimized Feed-forward Artificial Neural Network Topology to Support Radiologists in Breast Lesions Classification

Predicting Glycemia in Diabetic Patients By Evolutionary Computation and Continuous Glucose Monitoring

WORKSHOP SESSION: MBEA 2016

GECCO'16 Model-Based Evolutionary Algorithms (MBEA) Workshop Chairs' Welcome

SESSION: VizGEC 2016

Visualisation Methods in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (VizGEC 2016) Chairs' Welcome & Organization

Visualisation and Analysis of Genetic Records Produced by Cartesian Genetic Programming

Visualizing Genetic Programming Ancestries

Visualizing for Success: How Can we Make the User more Efficient in Interactive Evolutionary Algorithms?

Enabling Dominance Resistance in Visualisable Distance-Based Many-Objective Problems

Learning Features for Discriminative Behavior Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms via Slow Feature Analysis

SESSION: IWERML'16

International Workshop on Evolutionary Rule-Based Machine Learning Workshop (IWERML) Welcome & Organization

Pareto Inspired Multi-objective Rule Fitness for Adaptive Rule-based Machine Learning

Code Fragments: Past and Future use in Transfer Learning

Hands-on Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems

SESSION: Women@GECCO 2016

Women@GECCO 2016 Chairs' Welcome

SESSION: Late-Breaking Abstracts Workshop

Late-Breaking Abstracts Workshop at GECCO'16: Chair's Welcome

A Multimodal Adaptive Genetic Clustering Algorithm

BeamGA Median: A Hybrid Heuristic Search Framework

Nearing Stroop Effect Replication via Neuroevolution

Reducing Energy Consumption in Smart Cities: A Scatter Search Based Approach

Feature Selection using Genetic Algorithm: An Analysis of the Bias-Property for One-Point Crossover

Discovery Motifs by Evolutionary Computation

Are Evolutionary Computation-Based Methods Comparable to State-of-the-art non-Evolutionary Methods for Community Detection?

On Development of a New Approach for EA Acceleration in Chosen Large Optimization Problems of Mechanics

Comparison between Golden Ball Meta-heuristic, Evolutionary Simulated Annealing and Tabu Search for the Traveling Salesman Problem

TIMON Project: Description and Preliminary Tests for Traffic Prediction Using Evolutionary Techniques

Schemata Bandits for MAXSAT

Multiobjective Discrete Differential Evolution for Service Restoration in Energy Distribution Systems

Increasing the Throughput of Expensive Evaluations Through a Vector Based Genetic Programming Framework

POSTER SESSION: Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

Asynchronous Steady State Particle Swarm

Ant Colony Optimization Beats Resampling on Noisy Functions

POSTER SESSION: Artificial Immune Systems and Biological and Biomedical Applications

Fitness-Dependent Hybridization of Clonal Selection Algorithm and Random Local Search

Exploiting the Plasticity of Primary and Secondary Response Mechanisms in Artificial Immune Systems

Metabolite Overproduction through Engineering and Optimization of Microbiome Composition Dynamics

VorAIS: A Multi-Objective Voronoi Diagram-based Artificial Immune System

Using Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms to Understand Parkinson's Disease

POSTER SESSION: Complex Systems (Artificial Life/Robotics/Evolvable Hardware/Generative and Developmental Systems)

A Multi-objective Optimization Approach for Generating Complex Networks

A Morphogenetic Design Strategy Using a Composite CA Model

An Extended Study of Quality Diversity Algorithms

Automatic Evolution of Multimodal Behavior with Multi-Brain HyperNEAT

Exploring Conflicting Objectives with MADNS: Multiple Assessment Directed Novelty Search

What Factors Drive the Evolution of Mutualism?

Evolving Novel Cellular Automaton Seeds Using Compositional Pattern Producing Networks (CPPN)

POSTER SESSION: Continuous Optimization

Contextual Stochastic Search

Diversity-Based Multi-Population Differential Evolution for Large-Scale Optimization

Multilevel Evolution Strategies for Multigrid Problems

QR Mutations Improve Many Evolution Strategies: A Lot On Highly Multimodal Problems

POSTER SESSION: Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts

An Evo-Devo System for Algorithmic Composition that Actually Works

Evolutionary Procedural 2D Map Generation using Novelty Search

Interactive Super Mario Bros Evolution

POSTER SESSION: Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics

Search Space Exploration and an Optimization Criterion for Hard Design Problems

Experimental Study of Automated Parameter Tuning on the Example of irace and the Traveling Salesman Problem

A Novel Co-evolutionary Approach for Constrained Genetic Algorithms

Solving Maximum Cut Problem with an Incremental Genetic Algorithm

Efficient Stochastic Local Search for Modularity Maximization

Iterated Local Search Based Heuristic for Scheduling Jobs on Unrelated Parallel Machines with Machine Deterioration Effect

Toward the Design of Efficient Pivoting Rules for Local Search

Hybridizing Different Local Search Algorithms with Each Other and Evolutionary Computation: Better Performance on the Traveling Salesman Problem

A Coevolution Genetic Algorithm for Conflict Resolution of Multi-user Satellite Observation Activities

POSTER SESSION: Evolutionary Machine Learning

Improving Logistic Regression Classification of Credit Approval with Features Constructed by Kaizen Programming

Inspecting the Latent Space of Stock Market Data with Genetic Programming

Evolving Augmented Graph Grammars for Argument Analysis

Variance-based Learning Classifier System without Convergence of Reward Estimation

Directly Constructing Multiple Features for Classification with Missing Data using Genetic Programming with Interval Functions

POSTER SESSION: Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

A CUDA Implementation of an Improved Decomposition Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Multi-Objective Optimization

Local Search Move Strategies within MOEA/D

Adaptive Use of Innovization Principles for a Faster Convergence of Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms

Towards a Better Diversity of Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization Algorithms using Local Searches

Approximate BDD Optimization with Prioritized ε-Preferred Evolutionary Algorithm

Multi-objective Optimisation with a Sequence-based Selection Hyper-heuristic

Weighted Optimization Framework for Large-scale Multi-objective Optimization

POSTER SESSION: Genetic Algorithms

Investigation on Parameterless Schemes for DSMGA-II

A Novel GA-based Feature Selection Approach for High Dimensional Data

A GA-Inspired Approach to the Reduction of Edge Crossings in Force-Directed Layouts

A Homologous Gene Replacement based Genetic Algorithm

mpEAd: Multi-Population EA Diagrams

Maintaining Genetic Diversity in Multimodal Evolutionary Algorithms using Population Injection

POSTER SESSION: Genetic Programming

Simultaneous Synthesis of Multiple Functions using Genetic Programming with Scaffolding

Arbitrarily Close Alignments in the Error Space: A Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming Approach

Finding Nonlinear Relationships in fMRI Time Series with Symbolic Regression

A Semantics based Symbolic Regression Framework for Mining Explicit and Implicit Equations from Data

On Heuristics for Seeding the Initial Population of Cartesian Genetic Programming Applied to Combinational Logic Circuits

Evolving Attackers against Wireless Sensor Networks

Niching Genetic Programming based Hyper-heuristic Approach to Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling: An Investigation into Distance Metrics

Grammar-based Selection Hyper-heuristics for Solving Irregular Bin Packing Problems

Solving the Lawn Mower problem with Kaizen Programming and λ-Linear Genetic Programming for Module Acquisition

POSTER SESSION: Integrative Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

Recombination Hotspots Promote the Evolvability of Modular Systems

POSTER SESSION: Parallel Evolutionary Systems

Parallel Differential Evolution Based on Distributed Cloud Computing Resources for Power Electronic Circuit Optimization

A New Hybrid GPU-PSO Approach for Solving Max-CSPs

Develop, Deploy and Execute Parallel Genetic Algorithms in the Cloud

POSTER SESSION: Real World Applications

Optimum Design of Artificial Lateral Line Systems for Object Tracking under Uncertain Conditions

Introducing Pareto-based MOEA to Neurosurgery Preoperative Path Planning

Improving Classification of Patterns in Ultra-High Frequency Time Series with Evolutionary Algorithms

Mechanical Modeling with Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Braided Bicomponent Ureteral Stent

A Graph-based QoS-Aware Method for Web Service Composition with Branching

Evolutionary Dynamic Optimization of Control Trajectories for the Catalytic Transformation of the Bioethanol-To-Olefins Process using Neural Networks

Co-evolution of Sensor Morphology and Behavior

POSTER SESSION: Search-Based Software Engineering and Self-* Search

Configuring a Stigmergy-based Traffic Light Controller

Selection and Generation Hyper-heuristics for Solving the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows

Adaptive Parameter Selection in Evolutionary Algorithms by Reinforcement Learning with Dynamic Discretization of Parameter Range

Exploiting Antipheromone in Ant Colony Optimisation for Interactive Search-Based Software Design and Refactoring

Curious: Searching for Unknown Regions of Space with a Subpopulation-based Algorithm

POSTER SESSION: Theory

An Algorithm for Computing Lower Bounds for Unrestricted Black-Box Complexities

Principled Evolutionary Algorithm Design and the Kernel Trick

On the Capacity of Evolution Strategies to Statistically Learn the Landscape

POSTER SESSION: Hot Off Press

Model-Based Relative Entropy Stochastic Search

On the Automatic Construction of Regular Expressions from Examples (GP vs. Humans 1-0)

Evolution of Complex Emergent Behaviour in Multi-State Cellular Automata

Unleashing the Potential of Evolutionary Swarm Robotics in the Real World

The Benefit of Recombination in Noisy Evolutionary Search

Online Discovery of Search Objectives for Test-based Problems

The Smaller, the Better: Selecting Refined SVM Training Sets Using Adaptive Memetic Algorithm

Intelligent On-Line Energy Management System for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles based on Evolutionary Algorithm