Programme

The programme was slightly changed !!!
(Oct 23. 2001)

Monday October 29th

9.00 Registration, coffee and Welcome Speech
Theory
10.00

12.30
Niching in Monte-Carlo Filtering Algorithms
Alexis Bienvenüe, Marc Joannides, Jean Bérard, Eric Fontenas and Olivier François
Measurement of Population Diversity
Ronald W. Morrison and Kenneth A. De Jong
Evolving Finite State Machine Prediction of Binary Sequences
Umberto Cerruti, Mario Giacobini and Pierre Liardet
Extending Selection Learning toward Fixed-Length Non Binary Strings
Arnaud Berny
Markov Random Field Modelling of Royal Road Genetic Algorithms
D.F. Brown, A.B. Garmedia-Doval, J.A.W. McCall
  Lunch
Heuristics
14.30

16.00
Linkage Learning in Real-Coded GAs with Simplex Crossover
Shigeyoshi Tsutsui, David E. Goldberg, Kumara Sastry
The importance of Selection Mechanisms in Distribution Estimation Algorithms
Andrew Johnson and Jonathan Shapiro
Cooperative Coevolution for Learning Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems
Jorge Casillas, Oscar Cordón, Francisco Herrera, and Juan J. Merelo
Measuring the Spatial Dispersion of Evolutionist Search Processes: Application to Walksat
Alain Sidaner, Olivier Bailleux, Jean-Jacques Chabrier
  Coffee break
Constraint Handling
16.30

17.30
Dual Evolutionary Optimisation
Rodolphe Le Riche and Frédéric Guyon
Using Evolutionary Algorithms Incorporating the Augmented Lagrangian Penalty Function to Solve Discrete and Continuous Constrained Non-Linear Optimal Control Problems
Stephen Smith
Implementation Issues
17.30

18.30
EASEA Comparisons on Test Functions: GALib Versus EO
Evelyne Lutton, Pierre Collet, Jean Louchet
Evolving Objects: a General Purpose Evolutionary Computation Library
M. Keijzer, J. J. Merelo, G. Romero, and M. Schoenauer

Tuesday October 30th

Operators
8.30

10.00
Surrogate Deterministic Mutation: Preliminary Results
K. Abboud and Marc Schoenauer
The Effects of Partial Restarts in Evolutionary Search
Ingo La Tendresse, Jens Gottlieb, Odej Kao
Experimenting History and Immortality in Evolutionary Computation
Benoît Leblanc, Evelyne Lutton, Bertrand Braunschweig, Hervé Toulhoat
  Coffee break
Applications I
10.30

12.00
Origins and Learnability of Syllable Systems : a Cultural Evolutionary Model
Pierre-yves Oudeyer
Evolution Strategy in Portfolio Optimization
Jerzy Korczak, Piotr Lipinski and Patrick Roger
Evolving Cooperative Ecosystems: A Multi-Agent Simulation of Deforestation Activities
Ravi Srivastava, Amit Kaldate
  Lunch
Applications II
14.00

15.00
A Distributed Genetic Algorithm for Bandwidth Allocation in Multimedia Networks
Hidehiro Kobayachi, Masaharu Munetomo, Kiyoshi Akams and Yoshiharu Sato
Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for Car Front End Design
Olga Roudenko, Marc Schoenauer, Tiziana Bosio, Roberto Fontana
Backwarding: an overfitting control for genetic programming in a remote sensing application
Denis Robilliard and Cyril Fonlupt
Invited Speaker
15.00

16.00
    Q: what do you get if you cross a computer scientist with a biologist?
    A: a Digital Biologist.
(Why Biologists and Computer Scientists Should Work Together)
by Peter Bentley
Social Events
16.30

20.00
Visit of the "Domaine Thénard" in Givry
(bring your cameras)
20.30

24.00
Banquet at "Le Vieux Saule"

Wednesday October 31st

Combinatorial Optimisation
9.00

10.30
Scatter Search for Graph Colouring
Jean-Philippe Hamiez, Jin-Kao Hao
The Two Stage Continuous Parallel Flow-Shop Problem with Limited Storage: Modelling and Algorithms
Thomas Bousonville
SAT, local search dynamics and density of states
Meriema Belaidouni and Jin-Kao Hao
  Coffee break
Genetic Programming
11.00

12.30
Applying Boosting Techniques to Genetic Programming
Gregory Paris, Denis Robilliard, Cyril Fonlupt
Probabilistic Grammar-Guided Programming
Alain Ratle, Michèle Sebag
Combining Bootstrap and Genetic Programming for Feature Discovery in Fault Diagnosis
Ruixiang Sun, Fugee Tsung and Liangsheng Qu
  Lunch
Agent systems
14.30

16.00
The Impact of Environmental Structure on the Evolutionary Trajectories of a Foraging Agent
Ian Edmonds
Learning as a Consequence of Selection
Samuel Delepoulle, Philippe Preux and Jean-Claude Darcheville
Coevolution and Evolving Parallel Cellular Automata-Based Scheduling Algorithms
Franciszek Seredynski and Albert Y. Zomaya
Applications III
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Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for Car Front End Design
Olga Roudenko, Marc Schoenauer, Tiziana Bosio, Roberto Fontana
Transferred to Tuesday, 14h00-14h30          
16.00

16.20
Debriefing and general assembly of the Evolution Artificielle Association
(of which all of you became members for one year, as the membership was included in the registration fee)
  End of the conference
17.00 The EA'01 coach leaves for the 17.41 TGV to Paris

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