GECCO '17- Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

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SESSION: Keynote talks

Computational approaches in cancer genomics

Curious and creative machines

Evolving brains in evolving environments

SESSION: Ant colony optimization and swarm intelligence

CycloAnt: sequencing cyclic peptides using hybrid ants

Fitness-distance-ratio particle swarm optimization: stability analysis

Analysis of independent roulette selection in parallel ant colony optimization

Coordinating a team of searchers: of ants, swarms, and slime molds

A multi-UAV minimum time search planner based on ACOR

Estimating stop conditions of swarm based stochastic metaheuristic algorithms

PSO-based parameters selection for the bilateral filter in image denoising

SESSION: Complex systems (artificial life/artificial immune systems/robotics/evolvable hardware/generative and developmental systems)

Evolutionary optimization of self-assembly in a swarm of bio-micro-robots

Minimal criterion coevolution: a new approach to open-ended search

On the runtime analysis of the opt-IA artificial immune system

A comparison of genetic regulatory network dynamics and encoding

Data-efficient exploration, optimization, and modeling of diverse designs through surrogate-assisted illumination

Coupling novelty and surprise for evolutionary divergence

Alternate social theory discovery using genetic programming: towards better understanding the artificial anasazi

On self-adaptive rate restarts for evolutionary robotics with real rotorcraft

A minimal developmental model can increase evolvability in soft robots

Discovering evolutionary stepping stones through behavior domination

Effect of animat complexity on the evolution of hierarchical control

An investigation of environmental influence on the benefits of adaptation mechanisms in evolutionary swarm robotics

Vascular morphogenesis controller: a generative model for developing morphology of artificial structures

SESSION: Digital entertainment technologies and arts

Evolution of artistic image variants through feature based diversity optimisation

Comparing direct and indirect encodings using both raw and hand-designed features in tetris

Continual online evolutionary planning for in-game build order adaptation in StarCraft

Multi-task learning in Atari video games with emergent tangled program graphs

Multi-segment evolution of dungeon game levels

Can you feel it?: evaluation of affective expression in music generated by MetaCompose

SESSION: Evolutionary combinatorial optimization and metaheuristics

Parameter-less late acceptance hill-climbing

Automatic design of multi-objective local search algorithms: case study on a bi-objective permutation flowshop scheduling problem

Approximating optimization problems using EAs on scale-free networks

Configuring irace using surrogate configuration benchmarks

Hybrid metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization based on immune network for optimization and VNS

Community structure detection in multipartite networks: a new fitness measure

Shaping communities of local optima by perturbation strength

Multimodal truss structure design using bilevel and niching based evolutionary algorithms

Toward evolving dispatching rules for dynamic job shop scheduling under uncertainty

Automated heuristic design using genetic programming hyper-heuristic for uncertain capacitated arc routing problem

Combining two local searches with crossover: an efficient hybrid algorithm for the traveling salesman problem

Evolutionary algorithms for the design of orthogonal latin squares based on cellular automata

Heuristic rope team: a parallel algorithm for graph coloring

Just-in-time batch scheduling problem with two-dimensional bin packing constraints

Building a better heuristic for the traveling salesman problem: combining edge assembly crossover and partition crossover

Improving an exact solver for the traveling salesman problem using partition crossover

Distributed evolutionary k-way node separators

Fragment-based genetic programming for fully automated multi-objective web service composition

On feasible and infeasible search for equitable graph coloring

Comparing communities of optima with funnels in combinatorial fitness landscapes

SESSION: Evolutionary machine learning

Feature selection using stochastic diffusion search

Sensitivity-like analysis for feature selection in genetic programming

PAC models in stochastic multi-objective multi-armed bandits

Biogeography-based rule mining for classification

Evolving parsimonious networks by mixing activation functions

Automatic design of ant-miner mixed attributes for classification rule discovery

Evolving memory-augmented neural architecture for deep memory problems

GPGC: genetic programming for automatic clustering using a flexible non-hyper-spherical graph-based approach

Accelerating coevolution with adaptive matrix factorization

Neuroevolution on the edge of chaos

Theoretical XCS parameter settings of learning accurate classifiers

Particle swarm optimization for hyper-parameter selection in deep neural networks

Toward the automated analysis of complex diseases in genome-wide association studies using genetic programming

A genetic programming approach to designing convolutional neural network architectures

Automatic adjustment of selection pressure based on range of reward in learning classifier system

An evolutionary algorithm for discovering multi-relational association rules in the semantic web

Multiple imputation and genetic programming for classification with incomplete data

Solving test case based problems with fuzzy dominance

SESSION: Evolutionary multiobjective optimization

The multi-objective real-valued gene-pool optimal mixing evolutionary algorithm

Multimodal scalarized preferences in multi-objective optimization

Speeding up evolutionary multi-objective optimisation through diversity-based parent selection

On the importance of isolated solutions in constrained decomposition-based many-objective optimization

Robust multiobjective optimization using regression models and linear subproblems

A hyper-heuristic of scalarizing functions

Reference point specification in hypervolume calculation for fair comparison and efficient search

Progressively adding objectives: a case study in anomaly detection

Simulation-based crossover for the firefighter problem

Closed state model for understanding the dynamics of MOEAs

Multiobjective data mining from solutions by evolutionary multiobjective optimization

Metamodeling for multimodal selection functions in evolutionary multi-objective optimization

Benchmarking MOEAs for multi- and many-objective optimization using an unbounded external archive

Adaptive weights generation for decomposition-based multi-objective optimization using Gaussian process regression

Improved incremental non-dominated sorting for steady-state evolutionary multiobjective optimization

SESSION: Evolutionary numerical optimization

Deriving and improving CMA-ES with information geometric trust regions

Reconsidering constraint release for active-set evolution strategies

Constraint handling in efficient global optimization

Per instance algorithm configuration of CMA-ES with limited budget

Analysis of the pcCMSA-ES on the noisy ellipsoid model

A cooperative co-evolutionary algorithm for solving large-scale constrained problems with interaction detection

Exploiting linkage information in real-valued optimization with the real-valued gene-pool optimal mixing evolutionary algorithm

Niching an estimation-of-distribution algorithm by hierarchical Gaussian mixture learning

Effect of the mean vector learning rate in CMA-ES

TPAM: a simulation-based model for quantitatively analyzing parameter adaptation methods

Algorithm configuration data mining for CMA evolution strategies

SESSION: Genetic algorithms

Two-edge graphical linkage model for DSMGA-II

Optimizing one million variable NK landscapes by hybridizing deterministic recombination and local search

Genetic algorithm for epidemic mitigation by removing relationships

The role of crossover operator in bayesian network structure learning performance: a comprehensive comparative study and new insights

Fast genetic algorithms

Real-polarized genetic algorithm for the three-dimensional bin packing problem

A genetic algorithm for fair land allocation

Automatic generation of domain-specific genetic algorithm operators using the hierarchical bayesian optimization algorithm

Speeding up DSMGA-II on CUDA platform

Evolutionary image composition using feature covariance matrices

Different scenarios for survival analysis of evolutionary algorithms

EGAC: a genetic algorithm to compare chemical reaction networks

A diversity preservation scheme for DSMGA-II to conquer the hierarchical difficulty

SESSION: General evolutionary computation and hybrids

On the runtime analysis of generalised selection hyper-heuristics for pseudo-boolean optimisation

Theoretical results on bet-and-run as an initialisation strategy

Parallel evolutionary algorithm with interleaving generations

Alternative infill strategies for expensive multi-objective optimisation

Investigating uncertainty propagation in surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms

Time complexity reduction in efficient global optimization using cluster kriging

Reexpressing problematic optimization data: creating a workflow for the statistical analysis of multifactorial EC experiments

Simulation-based test functions for optimization algorithms

SESSION: Genetic programming

Self-adaptation of genetic operators through genetic programming techniques

Bounding bloat in genetic programming

Unsure when to stop?: ask your semantic neighbors

Improving generalization of evolved programs through automatic simplification

Properties of a GP active learning framework for streaming data with class imbalance

Counterexample-driven genetic programming

Ensemble representation learning: an analysis of fitness and survival for wrapper-based genetic programming methods

Discovery of search objectives in continuous domains

Evolvability in grammatical evolution

How noisy data affects geometric semantic genetic programming

Geometric semantic genetic programming for recursive boolean programs

Combining conformal prediction and genetic programming for symbolic interval regression

Coevolving deep hierarchies of programs to solve complex tasks

A probabilistic linear genetic programming with stochastic context-free grammar for solving symbolic regression problems

A hybrid genetic programming decision making system for RoboCup soccer simulation

Genetic programming based feature construction for classification with incomplete data

Scalable genetic programming by gene-pool optimal mixing and input-space entropy-based building-block learning

SESSION: Real world applications

An embedded system architecture based on genetic algorithms for mission and safety planning with UAV

Multi-objective optimization of level of service in urban transportation

Handling practicalities in agricultural policy optimization for water quality improvements

Optimizing the decomposition of time series using evolutionary algorithms: soil moisture analytics

Protein design by multiobjective optimization: evolutionary and non-evolutionary approaches

Evolving a real-time evacuation for urban disaster management

University staff teaching allocation: formulating and optimising a many-objective problem

Monopolies can exist in unmanned airspace

The evolution of neural network-based chart patterns: a preliminary study

A hybrid method for feature construction and selection to improve wind-damage prediction in the forestry sector

Searching for nonlinear relationships in fMRI data with symbolic regression

Towards solving large-scale precedence constrained production scheduling problems in mining

Optimizing nucleic acid sequences for a molecular data recorder

Automatic generation of optimal quantum key distribution protocols

Accurate mixed weibull distribution fitting by differential evolution

Solving structures of pigment-protein complexes as inverse optimization problems using decomposition

Evolutionary approach to optimization of data representation for classification of patterns in financial ultra-high frequency time series

Solving a supply-chain management problem using a bilevel approach

Conversion rate optimization through evolutionary computation

Optimization of monitoring in dynamic communication networks using a hybrid evolutionary algorithm

Enhanced genetic path planning for autonomous flight

A knee point based evolutionary multi-objective optimization for mission planning problems

Exploring trade-offs between target coverage, healthy tissue sparing, and the placement of catheters in HDR brachytherapy for prostate cancer using a novel multi-objective model-based mixed-integer evolutionary algorithm

An adaptive prioritized ε-preferred evolutionary algorithm for approximate BDD optimization

Computing new optimized routes for GPS navigators using evolutionary algorithms

Fast pedestrian detection using multimodal estimation of distribution algorithms

Heuristic allocation of computational resources

Evolving solution choice and decision support for a real-world optimisation problem

Evolutionary decomposition for 3D printing

SESSION: Search-based software engineering

A search for improved performance in regular expressions

A penalty-based Tabu search for constrained covering arrays

Empirical evaluation of conditional operators in GP based fault localization

A context-based refactoring recommendation approach using simulated annealing: two industrial case studies

Multi-objective black-box test case selection for system testing

Mining cross product line rules with multi-objective search and machine learning

Active coevolutionary learning of requirements specifications from examples

An adaptive fitness function based on branch hardness for search based testing

SESSION: Theory

Runtime analysis of the (1 + (λ, λ)) genetic algorithm on random satisfiable 3-CNF formulas

The (1+λ) evolutionary algorithm with self-adjusting mutation rate

Island models meet rumor spreading

Unknown solution length problems with no asymptotically optimal run time

Sorting by swaps with noisy comparisons

Improved runtime bounds for the univariate marginal distribution algorithm via anti-concentration

When is it beneficial to reject improvements?

Running time analysis of the (1+1)-EA for onemax and leadingones under bit-wise noise

Reoptimization times of evolutionary algorithms on linear functions under dynamic uniform constraints

Upper bounds on the runtime of the univariate marginal distribution algorithm on onemax