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Track: Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

Track: Genetic Algorithms

Track: Artificial Life/Robotics/Evolvable Hardware

Track: Genetic Programming

Track: Biological and Biomedical Applications

Track: Genetics Based Machine Learning

Track: Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts

Track: Integrative Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

Track: Estimation of Distribution Algorithms

Track: Parallel Evolutionary Systems

Track: Evolution Strategies and Evolutionary Programming

Track: Real World Applications

Track: Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics

Track: Search-Based Software Engineering

Track: Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

Track: Self-* Search

Track: Generative and Developmental Systems

Track: Theory

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Track: Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

Improving the Interpretability of Classification Rules Discovered by an Ant Colony Algorithm (Page 73)
Fernando E. B. Otero (University of Kent)
Alex A. Freitas (University of Kent)

Adaptive Artificial Bee Colony Optimization (Page 153)
Wei-jie Yu (Sun Yat-sen University)
Jun Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University)
Wei-neng Chen (Sun Yat-sen University)

 

Track: Artificial Life/Robotics/Evolvable Hardware

Generic Behaviour Similarity Measures for Evolutionary Swarm Robotics (Page 199)
Jorge Gomes (Instituto de Telecomunicações & LabMAg-FCUL)
Anders L. Christensen (Instituto de Telecomunicações & ISCTE-IUL)

Critical Interplay Between Density-Dependent Predation and Evolution of the Selfish Herd (Page 247)
Randal S. Olson (Michigan State University)
David B. Knoester (Michigan State University)
Christoph Adami (Michigan State University)

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Track: Biological and Biomedical Applications

Particularities of Evolutionary Parameter Estimation in Multi-Stage Compartmental Models of Thymocyte Dynamics (Page 303)
Daniela Zaharie (West University of Timişoara)
Lavinia Moatar-Moleriu (West University of Timişoara)
Viorel Negru (West University of Timişoara)

 

Track: Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts

Enhancements to Constrained Novelty Search: Two-Population Novelty Search for Generating Game Content (Page 343)
Antonios Liapis (IT University of Copenhagen)
Georgios N. Yannakakis (University of Malta)
Julian Togelius (IT University of Copenhagen)

 

Track: Estimation of Distribution Algorithms

Towards Large Scale Continuous EDA: A Random Matrix Theory Perspective (Page 383)
Ata Kabán (University of Birmingham)
Jakramate Bootkrajang (University of Birmingham)
Robert J. Durrant (University of Birmingham)

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Track: Evolution Strategies and Evolutionary Programming

On the Behaviour of the (1, λ)-ES for a Conically Constrained Problem (Page 423)
Dirk V. Arnold (Dalhousie University)

 

Track: Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics

Second Order Partial Derivatives for NK-Landscapes (Page 503)
Wenxiang Chen (Colorado State University)
Darrell Whitley (Colorado State University)
Doug Hains (Colorado State University)
Adele Howe (Colorado State University)

The Generalized Minimum Spanning Tree Problem: A Parameterized Complexity Analysis of Bi-Level Optimisation (Page 519)
Dogan Corus (University of Nottingham)
Per Kristian Lehre (University of Nottingham)
Frank Neumann (University of Adelaide)

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Track: Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

Parameterized Average-Case Complexity of the Hypervolume Indicator (Page 575)
Karl Bringmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik)
Tobias Friedrich (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität)

Edges of Mutually Non-Dominating Sets (Page 607)
Richard M. Everson (University of Exeter)
David J. Walker (University of Exeter)
Jonathan E. Fieldsend (University of Exeter)

 

Track: Generative and Developmental Systems

On Learning to Generate Wind Farm Layouts (Page 767)
Dennis Wilson (CSAIL - MIT)
Emmanuel Awa (Brandeis University)
Sylvain Cussat-Blanc (University of Toulouse)
Kalyan Veeramachaneni (CSAIL - MIT)
Una-May O'Reilly (CSAIL - MIT)

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Track: Genetic Algorithms

Lessons from the Black-Box: Fast Crossover-Based Genetic Algorithms (Page 781)
Benjamin Doerr (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Carola Doerr (LIAFA, Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7))
Franziska Ebel (Saarland University)

Hyperplane Initialized Local Search for MAXSAT (Page 805)
Doug Hains (Colorado State University)
Darrell Whitley (Colorado State University)
Adele Howe (Colorado State University)
Wenxiang Chen (Colorado State University)

 

Track: Genetic Programming

Genetic Programming for Edge Detection Using Multivariate Density (Page 917)
Wenlong Fu (Victoria University of Wellington)
Mark Johnston (Victoria University of Wellington)
Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington)

Runtime Analysis of Mutation-Based Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming for Basis Functions Regression (Page 989)
Alberto Moraglio (University of Birmingham)
Andrea Mambrini (University of Birmingham)

Prioritized Grammar Enumeration: Symbolic Regression by Dynamic Programming (Page 1021)
Tony Worm (Binghamton University)
Kenneth Chiu (Binghamton University)

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Track: Genetics Based Machine Learning

Extending Learning Classifier System with Cyclic Graphs for Scalability on Complex, Large-Scale Boolean Problems (Page 1045)
Muhammad Iqbal (Victoria University of Wellington)
Will N. Browne (Victoria University of Wellington)
Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington)

Networks of Transform-Based Evolvable Features for Object Recognition (Page 1077)
Taras Kowaliw (ISC-PIF, CNRS)
Wolfgang Banzhaf (Memorial University)
René Doursat (Drexel University)

 

Track: Integrative Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

Solving Satisfiability in Fuzzy Logics by Mixing CMA-ES (Page 1125)
Tim Brys (AI Lab, VUB)
Madalina M. Drugan (AI Lab, VUB)
Peter A. N. Bosman (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))
Martine De Cock (Ghent University )
Ann Nowé (Artificial Intelligence Lab, VUB)

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Track: Parallel Evolutionary Systems

ParadisEO-MO-GPU: A Framework for Parallel GPU-Based Local Search Metaheuristics (Page 1189)
Nouredine MELAB (Inria Lille, CNRS-LIFL, Université Lille 1)
Thé Van Luong (HEIG-VD)
Karima Boufaras (Inria Lille)
El Ghazali Talbi (Inria Lille, CNRS-LIFL, Université Lille 1)

 

Track: Real World Applications

Search for a Grand Tour of the Jupiter Galilean Moons (Page 1301)
Dario Izzo (European Space Agency)
Luís F. Simões (VU University Amsterdam)
Marcus Märtens (European Space Agency)
Guido C. H. E. de Croon (TU Delft)
Aurelie Heritier (European Space Agency)
Chit Hong Yam (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

A Multi-Objective Approach to Evolving Platooning Strategies in Intelligent Transportation Systems (Page 1397)
Willem van Willigen (VU University Amsterdam & TNO The Hague)
Evert Haasdijk (VU University Amsterdam)
Leon Kester (TNO The Hague)

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Track: Search-Based Software Engineering

Testing of Precision Agricultural Networks for Adversary-Induced Problems (Page 1421)
Karel P. Bergmann (University of Calgary)
Jörg Denzinger (University of Calgary)

The Optimisation of Stochastic Grammars to Enable Cost-Effective Probabilistic Structural Testing (Page 1477)
Simon Poulding (University of York)
Robert Alexander (University of York)
John A. Clark (University of York)
Mark J. Hadley (University of York)

 

Track: Self-* Search

S-Race: A Multi-Objective Racing Algorithm (Page 1565)
Tiantian Zhang (University of Central Florida)
Michael Georgiopoulos (University of Central Florida)
Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos (Florida Institute of Technology)

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Track: Theory

Particle Swarm Optimization Almost Surely Finds Local Optima (Page 1629)
Manuel Schmitt (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Rolf Wanka (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

   
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