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

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SESSION: Keynote Talks

The Challenges of Natural Algorithms

Taming the Complexity Monster or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Hard Problems

SESSION: Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

Relaxing Consensus in Distributed Factored Evolutionary Algorithms

A Mixed-Attribute Approach in Ant-Miner Classification Rule Discovery Algorithm

ACO-inspired Acceleration of Gossip Averaging

Curvature Flight Path for Particle Swarm Optimisation

The Influence of Heredity Models on Adaptability in Evolutionary Swarms

Using Mutual Information to Build Dynamic Neighbourhoods for Particle Swarm Optimisation

A New Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm

Update Strength in EDAs and ACO: How to Avoid Genetic Drift

Geometric Particle Swarm Optimization for Multi-objective Optimization Using Decomposition

SESSION: Artificial Immune Systems and Biological and Biomedical Applications

Artificial Immune Systems can Beat Evolutionary Algorithms in Combinatorial Optimisation

A Novel EA-based Memetic Approach for Efficiently Mapping Complex Fitness Landscapes

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

EvoRBC: Evolutionary Repertoire-based Control for Robots with Arbitrary Locomotion Complexity

Quantifying Deception: A Case Study in the Evolution of Antimicrobial Resistance

Convolution by Evolution: Differentiable Pattern Producing Networks

Evolving Neural Turing Machines for Reward-based Learning

Does Aligning Phenotypic and Genotypic Modularity Improve the Evolution of Neural Networks?

Accelerating the Evolution of Cognitive Behaviors Through Human-Computer Collaboration

Evolvability Search: Directly Selecting for Evolvability in order to Study and Produce It

Learning Behavior Characterizations for Novelty Search

Neuromodulation Improves the Evolution of Forward Models

Inspiration-Triggered Search: Towards Higher Complexities by Mimicking Creative Processes

How do Different Encodings Influence the Performance of the MAP-Elites Algorithm?

Identifying Core Functional Networks and Functional Modules within Artificial Neural Networks via Subsets Regression

SESSION: Continuous Optimization

Permuted Orthogonal Block-Diagonal Transformation Matrices for Large Scale Optimization Benchmarking

Projection-Based Restricted Covariance Matrix Adaptation for High Dimension

Analysis of Different Types of Regret in Continuous Noisy Optimization

Analysis of Linear Convergence of a (1 + 1)-ES with Augmented Lagrangian Constraint Handling

Experimental Investigation of Recombination Operators for Differential Evolution

Low-Budget Exploratory Landscape Analysis on Multiple Peaks Models

Population Size Adaptation for the CMA-ES Based on the Estimation Accuracy of the Natural Gradient

Two-Dimensional Barcode Decoration Using Module-wise Non-systematic Coding and Cooperative Evolution by User and System

SESSION: Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts

General Video Game Level Generation

Evotype: From Shapes to Glyphs

Demonstrating the Feasibility of Automatic Game Balancing

Discovering Combos in Fighting Games with Evolutionary Algorithms

SESSION: Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics

Extension of the CMSA Algorithm: An LP-based Way for Reducing Sub-instances

Fast Heuristics for the Multiple Traveling Thieves Problem

Cellular Genetic Algorithm for Solving a Routing On-Demand Transit Problem

Efficient Hill Climber for Constrained Pseudo-Boolean Optimization Problems

Population-based vs. Single-solution Heuristics for the Travelling Thief Problem

Communities of Local Optima as Funnels in Fitness Landscapes

A Population-based Local Search Technique with Random Descent and Jump for the Steiner Tree Problem in Graphs

A Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Maximum Common Edge Subgraph Detection in Biological Networks

Multi-objective Neutral Neighbors': What could be the definition(s)?

HMOBEDA: Hybrid Multi-objective Bayesian Estimation of Distribution Algorithm

Feature Selection in Evolving Job Shop Dispatching Rules with Genetic Programming

Additional Dimensions to the Study of Funnels in Combinatorial Landscapes

Multi-hard Problems in Uncertain Environment

Ants can Learn from the Opposite

Evolutionary Approaches to Optimization Problems in Chimera Topologies

Game theory, Extremal optimization, and Community Structure Detection in Complex Networks

On the Impact of the Renting Rate for the Unconstrained Nonlinear Knapsack Problem

On the Design of Hard mUBQP Instances

SESSION: Evolutionary Machine Learning

Human-inspired Scaling in Learning Classifier Systems: Case Study on the n-bit Multiplexer Problem Set

Using an Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Monotonic Regression Rule Discovery

Evolving Probabilistically Significant Epistatic Classification Rules for Heterogeneous Big Datasets

Transferable XCS

Improving the Canny Edge Detector Using Automatic Programming: Improving Non-Max Suppression

Fast Bi-Objective Feature Selection Using Entropy Measures and Bayesian Inference

Simple Evolutionary Optimization Can Rival Stochastic Gradient Descent in Neural Networks

Evaluation of a Tree-based Pipeline Optimization Tool for Automating Data Science

A Hybrid Approach for Sleep Stages Classification

Evolving Deep LSTM-based Memory Networks using an Information Maximization Objective

A New Evaluation Function for Clustering: The NK Internal Validation Criterion

A Wavelet-based Encoding for Neuroevolution

SESSION: Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

Karush-Kuhn-Tucker Proximity Measure for Multi-Objective Optimization Based on Numerical Gradients

Tuning of Multiple Parameter Sets in Evolutionary Algorithms

Experiments on Greedy and Local Search Heuristics for ddimensional Hypervolume Subset Selection

Bio-inspired Multi-objective Optimization Design of a Highly Efficient Squirrel Cage Induction Motor

Runtime Analysis of Evolutionary Diversity Maximization for OneMinMax

A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm based on Parallel Coordinates

A Generative Kriging Surrogate Model for Constrained and Unconstrained Multi-objective Optimization

A Correlation Analysis of Set Quality Indicator Values in Multiobjective Optimization

Active Learning in Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms for Sustainable Building Design

A Toolkit for Generating Scalable Stochastic Multiobjective Test Problems

A novel Multi-objective Optimization-based Image Registration Method

A Faster Algorithm for the Binary Epsilon Indicator Based on Orthant Minimum Search

SESSION: Genetic Algorithms

Hidden Genes Genetic Algorithms for Systems Architecture Optimization

Expanding from Discrete Cartesian to Permutation Gene-pool Optimal Mixing Evolutionary Algorithms

Escaping Local Optima with Diversity Mechanisms and Crossover

Breaking the Billion-Variable Barrier in Real-World Optimization Using a Customized Evolutionary Algorithm

Fast Building Block Assembly by Majority Vote Crossover

Runtime Analysis for the Parameter-less Population Pyramid

Surprise Search: Beyond Objectives and Novelty

A Parallel Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for the k-Edge-Connected Hop-Constrained Network Design Problem

Estimating the Advantage of Age-Layering in Evolutionary Algorithms

Exploiting Diverse Distance Metrics for Surrogate-Based Optimisation of Ordering Problems: A Case Study

SESSION: Genetic Programming

Improving Generalisation of Genetic Programming for Symbolic Regression with Structural Risk Minimisation

The Impact of Hyperselection on Lexicase Selection

Automatically Designing More General Mutation Operators of Evolutionary Programming for Groups of Function Classes Using a Hyper-Heuristic

Quantitative Analysis of Evolvability using Vertex Centralities in Phenotype Network

Epsilon-Lexicase Selection for Regression

Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Unsupervised Derivation of Search Objectives in Genetic Programming

A New Wave: A Dynamic Approach to Genetic Programming

Managing Repetition in Grammar-Based Genetic Programming

A Dispersion Operator for Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming

Evolving Algebraic Constructions for Designing Bent Boolean Functions

Discovering Rubik's Cube Subgroups using Coevolutionary GP: A Five Twist Experiment

Reducing Antagonism between Behavioral Diversity and Fitness in Semantic Genetic Programming

SESSION: Integrative Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

Approximation of (k,t)-robust Equilibria

Classification of Cardiac Arrhythmia by Random Forests with Features Constructed by Kaizen Programming with Linear Genetic Programming

SESSION: Parallel Evolutionary Systems

The Seamless Peer and Cloud Evolution Framework

Hardware-Accelerated Parallel Genetic Algorithm for Fitness Functions with Variable Execution Times

Performance for the Masses: Experiments with A Web Based Architecture to Harness Volunteer Resources for Low Cost Distributed Evolutionary Computation

Evaluation-Time Bias in Quasi-Generational and Steady-State Asynchronous Evolutionary Algorithms

SESSION: Real World Applications

A Hybrid Multi-Population Genetic Algorithm for UAV Path Planning

Planning Habitat Restoration with Genetic Algorithms

New Bounds for Office Space Allocation using Tabu Search

Multiobjective Neuroevolutionary Control for a Fuel Cell Turbine Hybrid Energy System

A Genetic Decomposition Algorithm for Predicting Rainfall within Financial Weather Derivatives

Planning Inspection Paths through Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization

Evolutionary Design of Fast High-quality Hash Functions for Network Applications

A Genetic Algorithm for Rule-based Chart Pattern Search in Stock Market Prices

Neuroevolution of a Hybrid Power Plant Simulator

Measuring Source Code Similarity by Finding Similar Subgraph with an Incremental Genetic Algorithm

Evolutionary Feature Subset Selection with Compression-based Entropy Estimation

Finding Reliable Solutions in Bilevel Optimization Problems Under Uncertainties

Evolutionary Learning of Scheduling Heuristics for Heterogeneous Wireless Communications Networks

A Sparse Recurrent Neural Network for Trajectory Prediction of Atlantic Hurricanes

Tackling the IFP Problem with the Preference-Based Genetic Algorithm

Grammatical Evolutionary Techniques for Prompt Migraine Prediction

A Real World Multi-UAV Evolutionary Planner for Minimum Time Target Detection

Finding Interactions or Relationships between Customer Orders for Building Better Batches by Means of an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm-based Approach for the Online Order Batching Problem

Grammatical Evolution Enhancing Simulated Annealing for the Load Balancing Problem in Cloud Computing

Benchmarks for the Coal Processing and Blending Problem

Fine Tuning of Traffic in our Cities with Smart Panels: The Quito City Case Study

Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization of Winglets

Selection of a DFO Method for the Efficient Solution of Continuous Constrained Sub-Problems within a Memetic Algorithm for Chemical Process Synthesis

Artificial Multi-Bee-Colony Algorithm for k-Nearest-Neighbor Fields Search

Fast and Effective Optimisation of Arrays of Submerged Wave Energy Converters

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

Test Case Prioritization of Configurable Cyber-Physical Systems with Weight-Based Search Algorithms

Learning Overtime Dynamics Through Multiobjective Optimization

Grammatical Evolution for the Multi-Objective Integration and Test Order Problem

A Search-based Training Algorithm for Cost-aware Defect Prediction

Search-Based Cost-Effective Test Case Selection within a Time Budget: An Empirical Study

A Combined Generative and Selective Hyper-heuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem

SESSION: Theory

Noisy Optimization: Fast Convergence Rates with Comparison-Based Algorithms

Optimal Parameter Settings for the (1 + λ, λ) Genetic Algorithm

The Right Mutation Strength for Multi-Valued Decision Variables

Optimal Parameter Choices via Precise Black-Box Analysis

The (1+1) Elitist Black-Box Complexity of LeadingOnes

EDAs cannot be Balanced and Stable

Optimal Mutation Rates for the (1+λ) EA on OneMax

The Impact of Migration Topology on the Runtime of Island Models in Dynamic Optimization

When Non-Elitism Outperforms Elitism for Crossing Fitness Valleys