GECCO'11 Proceedings Table of Contents

Preface
Pier Luca Lanzi (Conference Chair)
Natalio Krasnogor (Editor-in-Chief)

A Word from the Chair of SIGEVO
Darrell Whitley (ACM SIGEVO Chair)

GECCO'11 Editors

ACM SIGEVO Officers and Executive Committee

GECCO'11 Conference Organizers

GECCO'11 Program Committee Members

GECCO'11 Proceedings Author Index

GECCO'11 Proceedings ACM Copyright & Permissions Information

	Track Name	Track Chair(s)
	Invited Talks
	Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence	Andries Engelbrecht and David Pelta
	Artificial Life, Evolutionary Robotics and Evolvable Hardware	Carlos Gershenson and Giovanni Squillero
	Bioinformatics, Computational, Systems, and Synthetic Biology	Alex Freitas and Marylin Ritchie
	Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts	Mike Preuss and Christian Gagné
	Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics	Yew Soon Ong and Günther Raidl
	Estimation of Distribution Algorithms	José Lozano and Marcus Gallager
	Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization	Carlos Coello-Coello and Dario Landa Silva
	Evolutionary Strategies and Evolutionary Programming	Nikolaus Hansen and Silja Meyer-Nienberg
	Generative and Developmental Systems	Jeff Clune and Greg Hornby
	Genetic Algorithms	Jim Smith and Gus Eiben
	Genetic Programming	Lee Spector and Tina Yu
	Genetics-Based Machine Learning	Ester Bernadó-Mansilla and Will Browne
	Parallel Evolutionary Systems	Man-Leung Wong and Pierre Collet
	Real World Applications	Steve Gustafson and Jean-Paul Watson
	Search Based Software Engineering	Moshe Sipper and Simon Poulding
	Self-* Search	Gabriela Ochoa and Marc Schoenauer
	Theory	Carsten Witt and Anne Auger

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Track Papers

The Essence of Real-Valued Characteristic Function for Pairwise Relation in Linkage Learning for EDAs (Page 569)
Jui-Ting Lee (National Taiwan University)
Kai-Chun Fan (National Taiwan University)
Tian-Li Yu (National Taiwan University)

Parameter-Less Local Optimizer with Linkage Identification for Deterministic Order-k Decomposable Problems (Page 577)
Petr Pošík (Czech Technical University, Prague)
Stanislav Vaníček (Czech Technical University, Prague)

Dependence Trees with Copula Selection for Continuous Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (Page 585)
Rogelio Salinas-Gutiérrez (Center for Research in Mathematics, Mexico)
Arturo Hernández-Aguirre (Center for Research in Mathematics, Mexico)
Enrique R. Villa-Diharce (Center for Research in Mathematics, Mexico)

Regularized k-order Markov Models in EDAs (Page 593)
Roberto Santana (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Hossein Karshenas (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Concha Bielza (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Pedro Larrañaga (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

Use of Infeasible Individuals in Probabilistic Model Building Genetic Network Programming (Page 601)
Xianneng Li (Waseda University)
Shingo Mabu (Waseda University)
Kotaro Hirasawa (Waseda University)

A Preliminary Study on EDAs for Permutation Problems Based on Marginal-Based Models (Page 609)
Josu Ceberio (University of the Basque Country)
Alexander Mendiburu (University of the Basque Country)
Jose A. Lozano (University of the Basque Country)

Optimal Mixing Evolutionary Algorithms (Page 617)
Dirk Thierens (Utrecht University)
Peter A.N. Bosman (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))

Advanced Neighborhoods and Problem Difficulty Measures (Page 625)
Mark Hauschild (University of Missouri, St. Louis)
Martin Pelikan (University of Missouri, St. Louis)

Hierarchical Allelic Pairwise Independent Functions (Page 633)
David Iclănzan (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania)