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Companion Table of Contents

Chair's Welcome
Frank Neumann (The University of Adelaide)

GECCO 2016 Organization

Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

IAM 2016 Chairs' Welcome & Organization

Artificial Immune Systems and Biological and Biomedical Applications

MPDEA 2016 Workshop

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

GECCO'16 Student Workshop

Continuous Optimization

Evolution in Cognition 2016 Workshop

Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts

SecDef 2016 Workshop

Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics

Algorithms and Data Structures for Evolutionary Computation 2016 Workshop

Evolutionary Machine Learning

Genetic Improvement 2016 Workshop

Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

BBOB-2016 Workshop

Genetic Algorithms

SAEOpt 2016 Workshop

Genetic Programming

Evolutionary Computation in Computational Structural Biology 2016 Workshop

Integrative Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

EvoSoft 2016 Workshop

Parallel Evolutionary Systems

ECADA 2016 Workshop

Real World Applications

MedGEC 2016 Workshop

Search-Based Software Engineering and Self-* Search

MBEA 2016 Workshop

Theory

IWERML 2016 Workshop

Hot Off Press

VizGEC 2016 Workshop

Introductory Tutorials

Women@GECCO 2016 Workshop

Advanced Tutorials

Late-Breaking Abstracts

Specialized Tutorials

 
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Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

Asynchronous Steady State Particle Swarm (Page 1)
Carlos M. Fernandes (University of Lisbon)

Juan Julián Merelo (University of Granada)

Agostinho C. Rosa (University of Lisbon)

Ant Colony Optimization Beats Resampling on Noisy Functions (Page 3)
Tobias Friedrich (Hasso-Plattner-Institut)

Timo Kötzing (Hasso-Plattner-Institut)

Francesco Quinzan (Hasso-Plattner-Institut)

Andrew M. Sutton (Hasso-Plattner-Institut)

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Artificial Immune Systems and Biological and Biomedical Applications

Fitness-Dependent Hybridization of Clonal Selection Algorithm and Random Local Search (Page 5)
Nina Bulanova (ITMO University)

Arina Buzdalova (ITMO University)

Maxim Buzdalov (ITMO University)

Exploiting the Plasticity of Primary and Secondary Response Mechanisms in Artificial Immune Systems (Page 7)
Julie Greensmith (University of Nottingham)

Andrew M. Jackson (University of Nottingham)

Ian Spendlove (University of Nottingham)

Metabolite Overproduction through Engineering and Optimization of Microbiome Composition Dynamics (Page 9)
Stephen Lincoln (University of Connecticut)

Jacquelynn Benjamino (University of Connecticut)

Joerg Graf (University of Connecticut)

Ranjan Srivastava (University of Connecticut)

VorAIS: A Multi-Objective Voronoi Diagram-based Artificial Immune System (Page 11)
Luis Martí (Université Paris-Saclay & Universidade Federal Fluminense)

Arsene Fansi Tchango (Thales Group)

Laurent Navarro (Thales Group)

Marc Schoenauer (Université Paris-Saclay)

Using Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms to Understand Parkinson's Disease (Page 13)
Marta Vallejo (Heriot-Watt University)

Jeremy Cosgrove (Leeds General Infirmary)

Jane E. Alty (Leeds General Infirmary)

Stephen L. Smith (University of York)

David W. Corne (Heriot-Watt University)

Michael A. Lones (Heriot-Watt University)

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

A Multi-objective Optimization Approach for Generating Complex Networks (Page 15)
Viplove Arora (Purdue University)

Mario Ventresca (Purdue University)

A Morphogenetic Design Strategy Using a Composite CA Model (Page 17)
Camilo Cruz (The University of Melbourne)

Justyna Karakiewicz (The University of Melbourne)

Michael Kirley (The University of Melbourne)

An Extended Study of Quality Diversity Algorithms (Page 19)
Justin K. Pugh (University of Central Florida)

L. B. Soros (University of Central Florida)

Kenneth O. Stanley (University of Central Florida)

Automatic Evolution of Multimodal Behavior with Multi-Brain HyperNEAT (Page 21)
Jacob Schrum (Southwestern University)

Joel Lehman (IT University of Copenhagen)

Sebastian Risi (IT University of Copenhagen)

Exploring Conflicting Objectives with MADNS: Multiple Assessment Directed Novelty Search (Page 23)
Davy Smith (Queen Mary University of London)

Laurissa Tokarchuk (Queen Mary University of London)

Geraint Wiggins (Queen Mary University of London)

What Factors Drive the Evolution of Mutualism? (Page 25)
Anya E. Vostinar (Michigan State University)

Luis Zaman (University of Washington)

Charles Ofria (Michigan State University)

Evolving Novel Cellular Automaton Seeds Using Compositional Pattern Producing Networks (CPPN) (Page 27)
Joshuah Wolper (Swarthmore College)

George Abraham (Swarthmore College)

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Continuous Optimization

Contextual Stochastic Search (Page 29)
Abbas Abdolmaleki (University of Aveiro, University of Porto, & University of Minho)

Nuno Lau (University of Aveiro)

Luis Paulo Reis (University of Minho)

Gerhard Neumann (TU Darmstadt)

Diversity-Based Multi-Population Differential Evolution for Large-Scale Optimization (Page 31)
Yong-Feng Ge (Sun Yat-sen University)

Wei-Jie Yu (Sun Yat-sen University)

Jun Zhang (South China University of Technology)

Multilevel Evolution Strategies for Multigrid Problems (Page 33)
Ofer M. Shir (Tel-Hai College &The Galilee Research Institute - Migal)

QR Mutations Improve Many Evolution Strategies - A Lot On Highly Multimodal Problems (Page 35)
Fabien Teytaud (University Littoral)

Olivier Teytaud (INRIA)

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Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts

An Evo-Devo System for Algorithmic Composition that Actually Works (Page 37)
David D. Albarracín-Molina (Universidad de Malaga)

Juan C. Moya (Universidad de Malaga)

Francisco J. Vico (Universidad de Malaga)

Evolutionary Procedural 2D Map Generation using Novelty Search (Page 39)
Andreas Scheibenpflug (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria & Johannes Kepler University Linz)

Johannes Karder (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria)

Susanne Schaller (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria)

Stefan Wagner (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria)

Michael Affenzeller (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria & Johannes Kepler University Linz)

Interactive Super Mario Bros Evolution (Page 41)
Patrikk D. Sørensen (IT University of Copenhagen)

Jeppeh M. Olsen (IT University of Copenhagen)

Sebastian Risi (IT University of Copenhagen)

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Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics

Search Space Exploration and an Optimization Criterion for Hard Design Problems (Page 43)
Pierre Bergé (LRI/CentraleSupélec)

Kaourintin Le Guiban (LRI/CentraleSupélec)

Arpad Rimmel (LRI/CentraleSupélec)

Joanna Tomasik (LRI/CentraleSupélec)

Experimental Study of Automated Parameter Tuning on the Example of irace and the Traveling Salesman Problem (Page 45)
Daniil Chivilikhin (ITMO University)

A Novel Co-evolutionary Approach for Constrained Genetic Algorithms (Page 47)
Emmanuel Kieffer (University of Luxembourg)

Mateusz Guzek (University of Luxembourg)

Grégoire Danoy (University of Luxembourg)

Pascal Bouvry (University of Luxembourg)

Anass Nagih (University of Lorraine)

Solving Maximum Cut Problem with an Incremental Genetic Algorithm (Page 49)
Jinhyun Kim (Seoul National University)

Yourim Yoon (Gachon University)

Byung-Ro Moon (Seoul National University)

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Efficient Stochastic Local Search for Modularity Maximization (Page 51)
Rafael Santiago (Universidade do Vale do Itajaí)

Luís C. Lamb (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)

Iterated Local Search Based Heuristic for Scheduling Jobs on Unrelated Parallel Machines with Machine Deterioration Effect (Page 53)
Vívian L. Aguiar Santos (Universidade Federal de Viçosa)

José Elias C. Arroyo (Universidade Federal de Viçosa)

Thales F. M. Carvalho (Universidade Federal de Viçosa)

Toward the Design of Efficient Pivoting Rules for Local Search (Page 55)
Sara Tari (LERIA, Université d'Angers)

Matthieu Basseur (LERIA, Université d'Angers)

Adrien Goëffon (LERIA, Université d'Angers)

Hybridizing Different Local Search Algorithms with Each Other and Evolutionary Computation: Better Performance on the Traveling Salesman Problem (Page 57)
Yuezhong Wu (University of Science and Technology of China)

Thomas Weise (University of Science and Technology of China)

Weichen Liu (University of Science and Technology of China)

A Coevolution Genetic Algorithm for Conflict Resolution of Multi-user Satellite Observation Activities (Page 59)
Baorong Zhai (National University of Defense Technology)

Hao Chen (National University of Defense Technology)

Jun Li (National University of Defense Technology)

Ning Jing (National University of Defense Technology)

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Evolutionary Machine Learning

Improving Logistic Regression Classification of Credit Approval with Features Constructed by Kaizen Programming (Page 61)
Vinícius Veloso de Melo (Federal University of São Paulo)

Wolfgang Banzhaf (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

Inspecting the Latent Space of Stock Market Data with Genetic Programming (Page 63)
Sungjoo Ha (Seoul National University)

Sangyeop Lee (Seoul National University)

Byung-Ro Moon (Seoul National University)

Evolving Augmented Graph Grammars for Argument Analysis (Page 65)
Collin F. Lynch (North Carolina State University)

Linting Xue (North Carolina State University)

Min Chi (North Carolina State University)

Variance-based Learning Classifier System without Convergence of Reward Estimation (Page 67)
Takato Tatsumi (The University of Electro-Communications)

Takahiro Komine (The University of Electro-Communications)

Masaya Nakata (Yokohama National University)

Hiroyuki Sato (The University of Electro-Communications)

Tim Kovacs (University of Bristol)

Keiki Takadama (The University of Electro-Communications)

Directly Constructing Multiple Features for Classification with Missing Data using Genetic Programming with Interval Functions (Page 69)
Cao Truong Tran (Victoria University of Wellington)

Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington)

Peter Andreae (Victoria University of Wellington)

Bing Xue (Victoria University of Wellington)

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Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

A CUDA Implementation of an Improved Decomposition Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Multi-Objective Optimization (Page 71)
Md Asafuddoula (The University of New South Wales)

Hemant Kumar Singh (The University of New South Wales)

Tapabrata Ray (The University of New South Wales)

Local Search Move Strategies within MOEA/D (Page 73)
Bilel Derbel (University Lille - CRIStAL - Inria)

Arnaud Liefooghe (University Lille - CRIStAL - Inria)

Qingfu Zhang (City University Hong Kong)

Hernan Aguirre (Shinshu University)

Kiyoshi Tanaka (Shinshu University)

Adaptive Use of Innovization Principles for a Faster Convergence of Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms (Page 75)
Abhinav Gaur (Michigan State University)

Kalyanmoy Deb (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Towards a Better Diversity of Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization Algorithms using Local Searches (Page 77)
Haitham Ahmed Seada (Michigan State University)

Mohamed Abouhawwash (Mansoura University)

Kalyanmoy Deb (Michigan State University)

Approximate BDD Optimization with Prioritized E-Preferred Evolutionary Algorithm (Page 79)
Saeideh Shirinzadeh (University of Bremen)

Mathias Soeken (EPFL)

Daniel Große (University of Bremen & DFKI GmbH)

Rolf Drechsler (University of Bremen & DFKI GmbH)

Multi-objective Optimisation with a Sequence-based Selection Hyper-heuristic (Page 81)
David J. Walker (University of Exeter)

Ed Keedwell (University of Exeter)

Weighted Optimization Framework for Large-scale Multi-objective Optimization (Page 83)
Heiner Zille (Otto-von-Guericke University)

Hisao Ishibuchi (Osaka Prefecture University)

Sanaz Mostaghim (Otto-von-Guericke University)

Yusuke Nojima (Osaka Prefecture University)

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Genetic Algorithms

Investigation on Parameterless Schemes for DSMGA-II (Page 85)
Chia-hua Chang (National Taiwan University)

Tian-Li Yu (National Taiwan University)

A Novel GA-based Feature Selection Approach for High Dimensional Data (Page 87)
Claudio De Stefano (Università di Cassino e del Lazio meridionale)

Francesco Fontanella (Università di Cassino e del Lazio meridionale)

Alessandra Scotto di Freca (Università di Cassino e del Lazio meridionale)

A GA-Inspired Approach to the Reduction of Edge Crossings in Force-Directed Layouts (Page 89)
Farshad Ghassemi Toosi (University of Limerick)

Nikola S. Nikolov (University of Limerick)

Malachy Eaton (University of Limerick)

A Homologous Gene Replacement based Genetic Algorithm (Page 91)
Sumaiya Iqbal (University of New Orleans)

Md Tamjidul Hoque (University of New Orleans)

mpEAd: Multi-Population EA Diagrams (Page 93)
Sebastian Lenartowicz (University of Guelph)

Mark Wineberg (University of Guelph)

Maintaining Genetic Diversity in Multimodal Evolutionary Algorithms using Population Injection (Page 95)
Robin Mueller-Bady (Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences)

Martin Kappes (Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences)

Inmaculada Medina-Bulo (Universidad de Cádiz)

Francisco Palomo-Lozano (Universidad de Cádiz)

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Genetic Programming

Simultaneous Synthesis of Multiple Functions using Genetic Programming with Scaffolding (Page 97)
Iwo Błądek (Poznan University of Technology)

Krzysztof Krawiec (Poznan University of Technology)

Arbitrarily Close Alignments in the Error Space: A Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming Approach (Page 99)
Ivo Gonçalves (University of Coimbra)

Sara Silva (University of Lisbon)

Carlos M. Fonseca (University of Coimbra)

Mauro Castelli (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Finding Nonlinear Relationships in fMRI Time Series with Symbolic Regression (Page 101)
James Alexander Hughes (University of Western Ontario)

Mark Daley (University of Western Ontario)

A Semantics based Symbolic Regression Framework for Mining Explicit and Implicit Equations from Data (Page 103)
Quang Nhat Huynh (The University of New South Wales)

Hemant Kumar Singh (The University of New South Wales)

Tapabrata Ray (The University of New South Wales)

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On Heuristics for Seeding the Initial Population of Cartesian Genetic Programming Applied to Combinational Logic Circuits (Page 105)
Francisco A. L. Manfrini (UFJF)

Heder S. Bernardino (UFJF)

Helio J. C. Barbosa (LNCC)

Evolving Attackers against Wireless Sensor Networks (Page 107)
Kinga Mrugala (University College London)

Nilufer Tuptuk (University College London)

Stephen Hailes (University College London)

Niching Genetic Programming based Hyper-heuristic Approach to Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling: An Investigation into Distance Metrics (Page 109)
John Park (Victoria University of Wellington)

Yi Mei (Victoria University of Wellington)

Gang Chen (Victoria University of Wellington)

Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington)

Grammar-based Selection Hyper-heuristics for Solving Irregular Bin Packing Problems (Page 111)
Alejandro Sosa-Ascencio (Tecnologico de Monterrey)

Hugo Terashima-Marín (Tecnologico de Monterrey)

José C. Ortiz-Bayliss (Tecnologico de Monterrey)

Santiago E. Conant-Pablos (Tecnologico de Monterrey)

Solving the Lawn Mower problem with Kaizen Programming and (lambda)-Linear Genetic Programming for Module Acquisition (Page 113)
Léo Françoso Dal Piccol Sotto (Federal University of São Paulo)

Vinícius Veloso de Melo (Federal University of São Paulo)

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Integrative Genetic and Evolutionary Computation

Recombination Hotspots Promote the Evolvability of Modular Systems (Page 115)
Ari Larson (University of Vermont)

Anton Bernatskiy (University of Vermont)

Collin Cappelle (University of Vermont)

Ken Livingston (Vassar College)

Nicholas Livingston (Vassar College)

John Long (Vassar College)

Jodi Schwarz (Vassar College)

Marc Smith (Vassar College)

Josh Bongard (University of Vermont)

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Parallel Evolutionary Systems

Parallel Differential Evolution Based on Distributed Cloud Computing Resources for Power Electronic Circuit Optimization (Page 117)
Xiao-Fang Liu (South China University of Technology)

Zhi-Hui Zhan (South China University of Technology)

Jun-Hao Lin (South China University of Technology)

Jun Zhang (South China University of Technology)

A New Hybrid GPU-PSO Approach for Solving Max-CSPs (Page 119)
Dali Narjess (University of Manouba)

Bouamama Sadok (University of Manouba)

Develop, Deploy and Execute Parallel Genetic Algorithms in the Cloud (Page 121)
Pasquale Salza (University of Salerno)

Filomena Ferrucci (University of Salerno)

Federica Sarro (University College London)

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Real World Applications

Optimum Design of Artificial Lateral Line Systems for Object Tracking under Uncertain Conditions (Page 123)
Ali Ahrari (Michigan State University)

Hong Lei (Michigan State University)

Montassar Aidi Sharif (Michigan State University)

Kalyanmoy Deb (Michigan State University)

Xiaobo Tan (Michigan State University)

Introducing Pareto-based MOEA to Neurosurgery Preoperative Path Planning (Page 125)
Noura Hamze (ICube / Université de Strasbourg)

Pierre Collet (ICube / Université de Strasbourg)

Caroline Essert (ICube / Université de Strasbourg)

Improving Classification of Patterns in Ultra-High Frequency Time Series with Evolutionary Algorithms (Page 127)
Piotr Lipinski (University of Wroclaw)

Krzysztof Michalak (Wroclaw University of Economics)

Adrian Lancucki (University of Wroclaw)

Mechanical Modeling with Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Braided Bicomponent Ureteral Stent (Page 129)
Xiaoyan Liu (Donghua University)

Feng Li (Donghua University)

Yongsheng Ding (Donghua University)

Lu Wang (Donghua University)

Kuangrong Hao (Donghua University)

A Graph-based QoS-Aware Method for Web Service Composition with Branching (Page 131)
Alexandre Sawczuk da Silva (Victoria University of Wellington)

Hui Ma (Victoria University of Wellington)

Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington)

Evolutionary Dynamic Optimization of Control Trajectories for the Catalytic Transformation of the Bioethanol-to-Olefins Process using Neural Networks (Page 133)
Gorka Sorrosal (University of Deusto)

Cruz E. Borges (University of Deusto)

Martin Holeňa (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)

Ana M. Macarulla (University of Deusto)

Cristina Martin (University of Deusto)

Ainhoa Alonso-Vicario (University of Deusto)

Co-evolution of Sensor Morphology and Behavior (Page 135)
Terence Soule (University of Idaho)

Barrie D. Robison (University of Idaho)

Robert B. Heckendorn (University of Idaho)

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Search-Based Software Engineering and Self-* Search

Configuring a Stigmergy-based Traffic Light Controller (Page 137)
Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste (Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB))

Thomas Stützle (Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB))

Selection and Generation Hyper-heuristics for Solving the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (Page 139)
David Espinoza-Nevárez (Tecnológico de Monterrey)

José Carlos Ortiz-Bayliss (Tecnológico de Monterrey)

Hugo Terashima-Marín (Tecnológico de Monterrey)

Gustavo Gatica (Universidad Andrés Bello & Universidad de Santiago de Chile)

Adaptive Parameter Selection in Evolutionary Algorithms by Reinforcement Learning with Dynamic Discretization of Parameter Range (Page 141)
Arkady Rost (ITMO University)

Irina Petrova (ITMO University)

Arina Buzdalova (ITMO University)

Exploiting Antipheromone in Ant Colony Optimisation for Interactive Search-Based Software Design and Refactoring (Page 143)
Chris Simons (University of the West of England)

Jim Smith (University of the West of England)

Curious: Searching for Unknown Regions of Space with a Subpopulation-based Algorithm (Page 145)
Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas (Kyushu University)

Junichi Murata (Kyushu University)

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Theory

An Algorithm for Computing Lower Bounds for Unrestricted Black-Box Complexities (Page 147)
Maxim Buzdalov (ITMO University)

Principled Evolutionary Algorithm Design and the Kernel Trick (Page 149)
Fergal Lane (University of Limerick)

R. Muhammad Atif Azad (University of Limerick)

Conor Ryan (University of Limerick)

On the Capacity of Evolution Strategies to Statistically Learn the Landscape (Page 151)
Ofer M. Shir (Tel-Hai College & The Galilee Research Institute - Migal)

Jonathan Roslund (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie)

Amir Yehudayoff (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

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Hot Off Press

Model-Based Relative Entropy Stochastic Search (Page 153)
Abbas Abdolmaleki (University of Aveiro, University of Porto, & University of Minho)

Rodulf Lioutikov (TU Darmstadt)

Nuno Lua (University of Aveiro)

Luis Paulo Reis (University of Minho)

Jan Peters (TU Darmstadt)

Gerhard Neumann (TU Darmstadt)

On the Automatic Construction of Regular Expressions from Examples (GP vs. Humans 1-0) (Page 155)
Alberto Bartoli (University of Trieste)

Andrea De Lorenzo (University of Trieste)

Eric Medvet (University of Trieste)

Fabiano Tarlao (University of Trieste)

Evolution of Complex Emergent Behaviour in Multi-State Cellular Automata (Page 157)
Michal Bidlo (Brno University of Technology)

Unleashing the Potential of Evolutionary Swarm Robotics in the Real World (Page 159)
Miguel Duarte (University of Lisbon)

Vasco Costa (University of Lisbon)

Jorge Gomes (University of Lisbon)

Tiago Rodrigues (University of Lisbon)

Fernando Silva (University of Lisbon)

Sancho Moura Oliveira (University of Lisbon)

Anders Lyhne Christensen (University of Lisbon)

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The Benefit of Recombination in Noisy Evolutionary Search (Page 161)
Tobias Friedrich (Hasso Plattner Institute)

Timo Kötzing (Hasso Plattner Institute)

Martin S. Krejca (Hasso Plattner Institute)

Andrew M. Sutton (Hasso Plattner Institute)

Online Discovery of Search Objectives for Test-based Problems (Page 163)
Pawel Liskowski (Poznan University of Technology)

Krzysztof Krawiec (Poznan University of Technology)

The Smaller, the Better: Selecting Refined SVM Training Sets Using Adaptive Memetic Algorithm (Page 165)
Jakub Nalepa (Silesian University of Technology)

Michal Kawulok (Silesian University of Technology)

Intelligent On-Line Energy Management System for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles based on Evolutionary Algorithm (Page 167)
Xuewei Qi (University of California, Riverside)

Matthew Barth (University of California, Riverside)

Guoyuan Wu (University of California, Riverside)

Kanok Boriboonsomsin (University of California, Riverside)

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Introductory Tutorials

Introduction to Complex Networks (Page 169)
Marco Tomassini (University of Lausanne)

Evolutionary Computation: A Unified Approach (Page 185)
Kenneth De Jong (George Mason University)

GECCO 2016 Tutorial on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (Page 201)
Dimo Brockhoff (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Tobias Wagner (TU Dortmund)

Evolving Neural Networks (Page 229)
Risto Miikkulainen (The University of Texas at Austin & Sentient Technologies, Inc.)

Genetic Programming: A Tutorial Introduction (Page 255)
Una-May O'Reilly (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Hyper-Heuristics (Page 273)
Daniel R. Tauritz (Missouri University of Science and Technology)

John Woodward (Stirling University)

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Introducing Rule-Based Machine Learning: Capturing Complexity (Page 305)
Ryan J. Urbanowicz (University of Pennsylvania)

Introduction to Randomized Continuous Optimization (Page 333)
Youhei Akimoto (Shinshu University)

Anne Auger (Inria)

Nikolaus Hansen (Inria)

Introductory Statistics for EC: A Visual Approach (Page 357)
Mark Wineberg (University of Guelph)

Model-Based Evolutionary Algorithms (Page 385)
Dirk Thierens (Utrecht University)

Peter A. N. Bosman (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))

Representations for Evolutionary Algorithms (Page 413)
Franz Rothlauf (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz)

Runtime Analysis of Population-based Evolutionary Algorithms (Page 435)
Per Kristian Lehre (University of Nottingham)

Pietro S. Oliveto (University of Sheffield)

Theory for Non-Theoreticians (Page 463)
Benjamin Doerr (École Polytechnique)

Carola Doerr (CNRS & Université Pierre et Marie Curie)

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Advanced Tutorials

Biased Random-Key Genetic Algorithms: An Advanced Tutorial (Page 483)
Mauricio G. C. Resende (Amazon.com, Inc.)

Celso C. Ribeiro (U. Federal Fluminense)

Blind No More: Deterministic Partition Crossover and Deterministic Improving Moves (Page 515)
Darrell Whitley (Colorado State University)

CMA-ES and Advanced Adaptation Mechanisms (Page 533)
Youhei Akimoto (Shinshu University)

Anne Auger (Inria)

Nikolaus Hansen (Inria)

Constraint-Handling Techniques used with Evolutionary Algorithms (Page 563)
Carlos A. Coello Coello (CINVESTAV-IPN)

Expressive Genetic Programming: Concepts and Applications (Page 589)
Lee Spector (Hampshire College)

Nicholas Freitag McPhee (University of Minnesota, Morris)

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Generative and Developmental Systems Tutorial (Page 609)
Kenneth O. Stanley (University of Central Florida)

Semantic Genetic Programming (Page 639)
Alberto Moraglio (University of Exeter)

Krzysztof Krawiec (Poznan University of Technology)

Simulation Optimisation: Tutorial (Page 663)
Juergen Branke (University of Warwick)

Solving Complex Problems with Coevolutionary Algorithms (Page 687)
Krzysztof Krawiec (Poznan University of Technology)

Malcolm Heywood (Dalhousie University)

Theory of Swarm Intelligence (Page 715)
Dirk Sudholt (University of Sheffield)

Visualization in Multiobjective Optimization (Page 735)
Bogdan Filipic (Jozef Stefan Institute)

Tea Tusar (Jozef Stefan Institute & Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

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Specialized Tutorials

Medical Applications of Evolutionary Computation (Page 765)
Stephen L. Smith (University of York)

Automatic (Offline) Configuration of Algorithms (Page 795)
Thomas Stützle (IRIDIA, Université libre de Bruxelles)

Manuel López-Ibáñez (University of Manchester)

Cloudy Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms (Page 819)
Juan J. Merelo (University of Granada/CITIC)

Intelligent Systems for Smart Cities (Page 823)
Enrique Alba (Universidad de Málaga)

Evolutionary Computation and Games (Page 841)
Julian Togelius (New York University)

Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection and Feature Construction (Page 861)
Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington)

Bing Xue (Victoria University of Wellington)

Evolutionary Computation and Cryptology (Page 883)
Stjepan Picek (KU Leuven & iMinds)

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IAM 2016 Workshop

IAM 2016 Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 911)
Silvino Fernández (ArcelorMittal)

Thomas Stützle (Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB))

Pablo Valledor Pellicer (ArcelorMittal)

Optimising a Waste Heat Recovery System using Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm (Page 913)
Maizura Mokhtar (Edinburgh Napier University)

Ian Hunt (Edinburgh Napier University)

Stephen Burns (Scotland's Rural College (SRUC))

Dave Ross (Scotland's Rural College (SRUC))

Multi-Line Batch Scheduling by Similarity (Page 921)
Ignacio Arnaldo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Erik Hemberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Una-May O'Reilly (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Granular-Based Dimension Reduction for Solar Radiation Prediction Using Adaptive Memory Programming (Page 929)
Abdel-Rahman Hedar (Umm Al-Qura University)

Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim (Umm Al-Qura University)

Majid Almaraashi (Umm Al-Qura University)

Criticality of Response Time in the usage of Metaheuristics in Industry (Page 937)
Silvino Fernández (ArcelorMittal)

Pablo Valledor (ArcelorMittal)

Diego Diaz (ArcelorMittal)

Eneko Malatsetxebarria (ArcelorMittal)

Miguel Iglesias (ArcelorMittal)

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MPDEA 2016 Workshop

MPDEA 2016 Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 941)
Giovanni Squillero (Politecnico di Torino)

Alberto Tonda (INRA, Université Paris-Saclay)

Promoting Diversity in Evolutionary Algorithms: an Updated Bibliography (Page 943)
Giovanni Squillero (Politecnico di Torino)

Alberto Tonda (INRA, Université Paris-Saclay)

Maintaining Diversity in The Bounded Pareto-Set: A Case of Opposition Based Solution Generation Scheme (Page 945)
AKM Khaled Ahsan Talukder (Michigan State University)

Kalyanmoy Deb (Michigan State University)

Shahryar Rahnamayan (University of Ontario Institute of Technology)

Population Diversity as a Selection Factor: Improving Fitness by Increasing Diversity (Page 953)
James Byron (Westmont)

Wayne Iba (Westmont)

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Harnessing Phenotypic Diversity towards Multiple Independent Objectives (Page 961)
Davy Smith (Queen Mary University of London)

Laurissa Tokarchuk (Queen Mary University of London)

Geraint Wiggins (Queen Mary University of London)

On Synergies between Diversity and Task Decomposition in Constructing Complex Systems with GP (Page 969)
Jessica P. C. Bonson (Dalhousie University)

Stephen Kelly (Dalhousie University)

Andrew R. McIntyre (Dalhousie University)

Malcolm I. Heywood (Dalhousie University)

A Modified Grid Diversity Operator for Discrete Optimization and its Application to Wind Farm Layout Optimization Problems (Page 977)
Ahmed Salah (Mansoura University)

Emma Hart (Edinburgh Napier University)

Effects of Lexicase and Tournament Selection on Diversity Recovery and Maintenance (Page 983)
Thomas Helmuth (Washington and Lee University)

Nicholas Freitag McPhee (University of Minnesota, Morris)

Lee Spector (Hampshire College)

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GECCO'16 Student Workshop

GECCO'16 Student Workshop Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 991)
Vanessa Volz (TU Dortmund University)

Samadhi Nallaperuma (University of Sheffield)

Boris Naujoks (TH Köln)

Integrating Local Search within neat-GP (Page 993)
Perla Juárez-Smith (Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana)

Leonardo Trujillo (Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana)

Simulated Annealing as a Pre-Processing Step for Force-Directed Graph Drawing (Page 997)
Farshad Ghassemi Toosi (University of Limerick)

Nikola S. Nikolov (University of Limerick)

Malachy Eaton (University of Limerick)

A Two Stages Invasive Weed Optimization via a New Clustering Strategy (Page 1001)
Shanshan Huang (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

Zhigang Ren (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

Muju Wang (Institute of Jiangsu Province)

Chenlin Sun (Xi'an Jiaotong University)

FdDCA: A Novel Fuzzy Deterministic Dendritic Cell Algorithm (Page 1007)
Nura Mukhtar (University of Aberdeen)

George M. Coghill (University of Aberdeen)

Wei Pang (University of Aberdeen)

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Parallel SMS-EMOA for Many-Objective Optimization Problems (Page 1011)
Raquel Hernández Gómez (CINVESTAV-IPN)

Carlos A. Coello Coello (CINVESTAV-IPN)

Evolution of Layer Based Neural Networks: Preliminary Report (Page 1015)
Edward R. Pantridge (Hampshire College)

Lee Spector (Hampshire College)

Random Tree Generator for an FPGA-based Genetic Programming System (Page 1023)
Carlos A. Goribar Jiménez (Tecnológico Nacional de Mexico)

Yazmín Maldonado (Tecnológico Nacional de Mexico)

Leonardo Trujillo (Tecnológico Nacional de Mexico)

Small-Moves Based Mutation for Pick-Up And Delivery Problem (Page 1027)
Viacheslav Shalamov (ITMO University)

Andrey Filchenkov (ITMO University)

Daniil Chivilikhin (ITMO University)

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Variable Selection for Multivariate Calibration in Chemometrics: A Real-World Application with Building Blocks Disruption Problem (Page 1031)
Lauro C. M. de Paula (Federal Unviersity of Goiás)

Anderson S. Soares (Federal Unviersity of Goiás)

Telma W. de Lima (Federal Unviersity of Goiás)

Arlindo R. G. Filho (Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás)

Clarimar J. Coelho (Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás)

Adding Program Length Bias to the Lexicase and Tournament Selection Algorithms (Page 1035)
Eva Moscovici (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Bee-Inspired Landmark Recognition in Robotic Navigation (Page 1039)
Kodi Cumbo (University of Idaho)

Samantha Heck (University of Idaho)

Ian Tanimoto (University of Idaho)

Travis DeVault (University of Idaho)

Robert Heckendorn (University of Idaho)

Terence Soule (University of Idaho)

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Evolution in Cognition 2016 Workshop

Evolution in Cognition 2016 Chairs' Welcome (Page 1043)
Stéphane Doncieux (UPMC Sorbonne Universités)

Joshua E. Auerbach (Ecole Polytéchnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Richard J. Duro (Universidade da Coruna)

Harold P. de Vladar (Parmenides Foundation)

The Evolution of Artificial Neurogenesis (Page 1047)
Dennis Wilson (University of Toulouse)

Sylvain Cussat-Blanc (University of Toulouse)

Hervé Luga (University of Toulouse)

An Attractor Network-Based Model with Darwinian Dynamics (Page 1049)
Harold P. de Vladar (Parmenides Foundation)

Anna Fedor (Parmenides Foundation)

András Szilágyi (Parmenides Foundation)

István Zachar (Parmenides Foundation)

Eörs Szathmáry (Parmenides Foundation)

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Darwinian Dynamics of Embodied Chaotic Exploration (Page 1053)
Yoonsik Shim (University of Sussex)

Joshua E. Auerbach (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Phil Husbands (University of Sussex)

Considering Memory Networks in the LTM Structure of the Multilevel Darwinist Brain (Page 1057)
Richard J. Duro (Universidade da Coruña)

José Antonio Becerra (Universidade da Coruña)

Juan Monroy (Universidade da Coruña)

Pilar Caamaño (Universidade da Coruña)

Gaining Insight into Quality Diversity (Page 1061)
Joshua E. Auerbach (Ecole Polytéchnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Giovanni Iacca (Ecole Polytéchnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Dario Floreano (Ecole Polytéchnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Neuroevolutionary Motivational Engine for Autonomous Robots (Page 1065)
Rodrigo Salgado (Universidade da Coruña)

Abraham Prieto (Universidade da Coruña)

Francisco Bellas (Universidade da Coruña)

Luis Calvo-Varela (Universidade da Coruña)

Richard J. Duro (Universidade da Coruña)

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SecDef Workshop 2016 Workshop

SecDef Workshop 2016 Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 1069)
Gunes Kayacik (Qualcomm Research)

Frank Moore (University of Alaska Anchorage)

Automatic Course of Action Generation using Soft Data for Maritime Domain Awareness (Page 1071)
Alex Plachkov (University of Ottawa)

Rami Abielmona (Larus Technologies Corporation)

Moufid Harb (Larus Technologies Corporation)

Rafael Falcon (Larus Technologies Corporation)

Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa)

Voicu Groza (University of Ottawa)

Emil Petriu (University of Ottawa)

Multi-UAV Path Planning with Parallel Genetic Algorithms on CUDA Architecture (Page 1079)
Ugur Cekmez (Yildiz Technical University)

Mustafa Ozsiginan (Turkish Air Force Academy)

Ozgur Koray Sahingoz (Turkish Air Force Academy)

Dynamics of Adversarial Co-evolution in Tax Non-Compliance Detection (Page 1087)
Jacob Rosen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Erik Hemberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Una-May O'Reilly (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Initiating a Moving Target Network Defense with a Real-time Neuro-evolutionary Detector (Page 1095)
Robert J. Smith (Dalhousie University)

A. Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University)

Malcolm I. Heywood (Dalhousie University)

John T. Jacobs (Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems)

An Incremental Ensemble Evolved by using Genetic Programming to Efficiently Detect Drifts in Cyber Security Datasets (Page 1103)
Gianluigi Folino (ICAR-CNR)

Francesco Sergio Pisani (ICAR-CNR)

Pietro Sabatino (ICAR-CNR)

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Algorithms and Data Structures for Evolutionary Computation 2016 Workshop

GECCO'16 Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures for Evolutionary Computation Chairs' Welcome (Page 1111)
Maxim Buzdalov (ITMO University)

Best Order Sort: A New Algorithm to Non-dominated Sorting for Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization (Page 1113)
Proteek Chandan Roy (Michigan State University)

Md. Monirul Islam (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology)

Kalyanmoy Deb (Michigan State University)

Efficient Removal of Points with Smallest Crowding Distance in Two-dimensional Incremental Non-dominated Sorting (Page 1121)
Niyaz Nigmatullin (ITMO University)

Maxim Buzdalov (ITMO University)

Andrey Stankevich (ITMO University)

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Genetic Improvement 2016 Workshop

Genetic Improvement 2016 Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 1129)
Westley Weimer (University of Virginia)

Justyna Petke (University College London)

David R. White (University College London)

Benchmarking Genetically Improved BarraCUDA on Epigenetic Methylation NGS datasets and nVidia GPUs (Page 1131)
William B. Langdon (University College London)

Albert Vilella (Cambridge Epigenetix)

Brian Yee Hong Lam (University of Cambridge)

Justyna Petke (University College London)

Mark Harman (University College London)

Guiding Unconstrained Genetic Improvement (Page 1133)
David R. White (University College London)

Genetic Improvement for Code Obfuscation (Page 1135)
Justyna Petke (University College London)

Speeding up the Proof Strategy in Formal Software Verification (Page 1137)
Markus Wagner (The University of Adelaide)

Optimising Energy Consumption Heuristically on Android Mobile Phones (Page 1139)
Mahmoud Bokhari (Adelaide University & Taibah University)

Markus Wagner (Adelaide University)

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Automatic Improvement of Apache Spark Queries using Semantics-preserving Program Reduction (Page 1141)
Zoltan A. Kocsis (University of Stirling)

John H. Drake (Queen Mary University of London)

Douglas Carson (Keysight Technologies)

Jerry Swan (University of York)

Genetic Programming: From Design to Improved Implementation (Page 1147)
Víctor R. López-López (Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana)

Leonardo Trujillo (Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana)

Pierrick Legrand (Université de Bordeaux)

Gustavo Olague (CICESE)

GP vs GI: If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them (Page 1155)
John R. Woodward (Stirling University)

Colin G. Johnson (Kent University)

Alexander E. I. Brownlee (Stirling University)

Evals is Not Enough: Why We Should Report Wall-clock Time (Page 1157)
John R. Woodward (Stirling University)

Alexander E. I. Brownlee (Stirling University)

Colin G. Johnson (Kent University)

Evolutionary Optimization of Compiler Flag Selection by Learning and Exploiting Flags Interactions (Page 1159)
Unai Garciarena (University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU))

Roberto Santana (University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU))

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BBOB-2016 Workshop

GECCO'16 Black-Box Optimization Benchmarking Workshop (BBOB-2016): Workshop Chairs' Welcome Message (Page 1167)
Anne Auger (Inria Saclay - Ile-de-France)

Dimo Brockhoff (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Nikolaus Hansen (Inria Saclay - Ile-de-France)

Dejan Tušar (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Tea Tušar (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Tobias Wagner (TU Dortmund University)

Anytime Bi-Objective Optimization with a Hybrid Multi-Objective CMA-ES (HMO-CMA-ES) (Page 1169)
Ilya Loshchilov (University of Freiburg)

Tobias Glasmachers (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Unbounded Population MO-CMA-ES for the Bi-Objective BBOB Test Suite (Page 1177)
Oswin Krause (University of Copenhagen)

Tobias Glasmachers (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Nikolaus Hansen (Universitè Paris-Sud)

Christian Igel (University of Copenhagen)

Evaluating the Population Size Adaptation Mechanism for CMA-ES on the BBOB Noiseless Testbed (Page 1185)
Kouhei Nishida (Shinshu University)

Youhei Akimoto (Shinshu University)

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Evaluating the Population Size Adaptation Mechanism for CMA-ES on the BBOB Noisy Testbed (Page 1193)
Kouhei Nishida (Shinshu University)

Youhei Akimoto (Shinshu University)

Hypervolume-Based DIRECT for Multi-Objective Optimisation (Page 1201)
Cheryl Sze Yin Wong (Nanyang Technological University)

Abdullah Al-Dujaili (Nanyang Technological University)

S. Sundaram (Nanyang Technological University)

A MATLAB Toolbox for Surrogate-Assisted Multi-Objective Optimization: A Preliminary Study (Page 1209)
Abdullah Al-Dujaili (Nanyang Technological University)

S. Suresh (Nanyang Technological University)

Benchmarking the Pure Random Search on the Bi-objective BBOB-2016 Testbed (Page 1217)
Anne Auger (Inria Saclay - Ile-de-France)

Dimo Brockhoff (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Nikolaus Hansen (Inria Saclay - Ile-de-France)

Dejan Tušar (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Tea Tušar (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Tobias Wagner (TU Dortmund)

The Impact of Variation Operators on the Performance of SMS-EMOA on the Bi-objective BBOB-2016 Test Suite (Page 1225)
Anne Auger (Inria Saclay - Ile-de-France)

Dimo Brockhoff (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Nikolaus Hansen (Inria Saclay - Ile-de-France)

Dejan Tušar (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Tea Tušar (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Tobias Wagner (TU Dortmund)

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Benchmarking MATLAB's gamultiobj (NSGA-II) on the Bi-objective BBOB-2016 Test Suite (Page 1233)
Anne Auger (Inria Saclay - Ile-de-France)

Dimo Brockhoff (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Nikolaus Hansen (Inria Saclay - Ile-de-France)

Dejan Tušar (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Tea Tušar (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Tobias Wagner (TU Dortmund)

Benchmarking RM-MEDA on the Bi-objective BBOB-2016 Test Suite (Page 1241)
Anne Auger (Inria Saclay - Ile-de-France)

Dimo Brockhoff (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Nikolaus Hansen (Inria Saclay - Ile-de-France)

Dejan Tušar (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Tea Tušar (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Tobias Wagner (TU Dortmund)

Performance of the DEMO Algorithm on the Bi-objective BBOB Test Suite (Page 1249)
Tea Tušar (Inria Lille - Nord Europe & Jožef Stefan Institute)

Bogdan Filipic (Jožef Stefan Institute)

The Impact of Search Volume on the Performance of RANDOMSEARCH on the Bi-objective BBOB-2016 Test Suite (Page 1257)
Anne Auger (Inria Saclay - Ile-de-France)

Dimo Brockhoff (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Nikolaus Hansen (Inria Saclay - Ile-de-France)

Dejan Tušar (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Tea Tušar (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)

Tobias Wagner (TU Dortmund)

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SAEOpt 2016 Workshop

Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Optimisation (SAEOpt'16) Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 1265)
Alma Rahat (University of Exeter)

Richard Everson (University of Exeter)

Jonathan Fieldsend (University of Exeter)

Yaochu Jin (University of Surrey)

Handing Wang (University of Surrey)

Mining Markov Network Surrogates for Value-Added Optimisation (Page 1267)
Alexander E. I. Brownlee (University of Stirling)

Adaptation of Surrogate Tasks for Bipedal Walk Optimization (Page 1275)
Patrick MacAlpine (The University of Texas at Austin)

Elad Liebman (The University of Texas at Austin)

Peter Stone (The University of Texas at Austin)

Fitness Estimation Strategy Assisted Competitive Swarm Optimizer for High Dimensional Expensive Problems (Page 1277)
Chaoli Sun (Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, University of Surrey, & Northeastern University)

Yaochu Jin (University of Surrey & Taiyuan University of Science and Technology)

Jinliang Ding (Northeastern University)

Jianchao Zeng (North University of China)

Uncertainty in Surrogate Models (Page 1279)
Handing Wang (University of Surrey)

Data Driven Evolutionary Optimization of Complex Systems: Big Data versus Small Data (Page 1281)
Yaochu Jin (University of Surrey)

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Evolutionary Computation in Computational Structural Biology 2016 Workshop

Workshop Evolutionary Computation in Computational Structural Biology 2016 Chairs' Welcome (Page 1283)
José Santos (University of A Coruña)

Julia Handl (University of Manchester)

Amarda Shehu (George Mason University)

Using Crowding-Distance in a Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm for Protein Structure Prediction (Page 1285)
Gregório Kappaun Rocha (LNCC/MCTI)

Fábio Lima Custódio (LNCC/MCTI)

Helio J. C. Barbosa (LNCC/MCTI)

Laurent Emmanuel Dardenne (LNCC/MCTI)

Path-based Guidance of an Evolutionary Algorithm in Mapping a Fitness Landscape and its Connectivity (Page 1293)
Emmanuel Sapin (George Mason University)

Kenneth De Jong (George Mason University)

Amarda Shehu (George Mason University)

An Ecologically-inspired Parallel Approach Applied to the Protein Structure Reconstruction from Contact Maps (Page 1299)
César M. V. Benítez (Federal University of Technology-Paraná)

Rafael Stubs Parpinelli (Santa Catarina State University)

Heitor Silvério Lopes (Federal University of Technology-Paraná)

Protein Folding Modeling with Neural Cellular Automata Using Rosetta (Page 1307)
Daniel Varela (University of A Coruña)

José Santos (University of A Coruña)

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EvoSoft 2016 Workshop

Evolutionary Computation Software Systems (EvoSoft) Workshop 2016 Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 1313)
Stefan Wagner (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria)

Michael Affenzeller (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria)

elephant56: Design and Implementation of a Parallel Genetic Algorithms Framework on Hadoop MapReduce (Page 1315)
Pasquale Salza (University of Salerno)

Filomena Ferrucci (University of Salerno)

Federica Sarro (University College London)

NodIO: A Framework and Architecture for Pool-based Evolutionary Computation (Page 1323)
Juan J. Merelo (Universidad de Granada)

Pedro A. Castillo (Universidad de Granada)

Pablo García-Sánchez (Universidad de Granada)

Paloma de las Cuevas (Universidad de Granada)

Mario García Valdez (Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana)

Optimization Knowledge Center: A Decision Support System for Heuristic Optimization (Page 1331)
Andreas Beham (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria & Johannes Kepler University Linz)

Stefan Wagner (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria)

Michael Affenzeller (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria & Johannes Kepler University Linz)

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ECADA 2016 Workshop

ECADA 2016 Chairs' Welcome (Page 1339)
Manuel López-Ibáñez (University of Manchester)

Daniel Tauritz (Missouri University of Science and Technology)

John Woodward (University of Stirling)

Exploration of Metaheuristics through Automatic Algorithm Configuration Techniques and Algorithmic Frameworks (Page 1341)
Alberto Franzin (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Thomas Stützle (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Evolution Evolves with Autoconstruction (Page 1349)
Lee Spector (Hampshire College)

Nicholas Freitag McPhee (University of Minnesota, Morris)

Thomas Helmuth (Washington and Lee University)

Maggie M. Casale (University of Minnesota, Morris)

Julian Oks (Hampshire College)

Connecting Automatic Parameter Tuning, Genetic Programming as a Hyper-heuristic, and Genetic Improvement Programming (Page 1357)
John R. Woodward (Stirling University)

Colin G. Johnson (Kent University)

Alexander E. I. Brownlee (Stirling University)

Why Asynchronous Parallel Evolution is the Future of Hyper-heuristics: A CDCL SAT Solver Case Study (Page 1359)
Alex R. Bertels (Missouri University of Science and Technology)

Daniel R. Tauritz (Missouri University of Science and Technology)

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MedGEC 2016 Workshop

MedGEC'16 Chairs' Welcome (Page 1367)
Stephen L. Smith (University of York)

Stefano Cagnoni (Universitá degli Studi di Parma)

Robert Patton (Oak Ridge Laboratory)

A Multi-Objective Approach to Predicting Motor and Cognitive Deficit in Parkinson's Disease Patients (Page 1369)
Marta Vallejo (Heriot-Watt University)

Jeremy Cosgrove (Leeds General Infirmary)

Jane E. Alty (Leeds General Infirmary)

Stuart Jamieson (Leeds General Infirmary)

Stephen L. Smith (University of York)

David W. Corne (Heriot-Watt University)

Michael A. Lones (Heriot-Watt University)

Exploring the Application of Hybrid Evolutionary Computation Techniques to Physical Activity Recognition (Page 1377)
Alejandro Baldominos (University Carlos III of Madrid)

Carmen del Barrio (University Carlos III of Madrid)

Yago Saez (University Carlos III of Madrid)

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An Optimized Feed-forward Artificial Neural Network Topology to Support Radiologists in Breast Lesions Classification (Page 1385)
Vitoantonio Bevilacqua (Polytechnic of Bari)

Antonio Brunetti (Polytechnic of Bari)

Maurizio Triggiani (Polytechnic of Bari)

Domenico Magaletti (Polytechnic of Bari)

Michele Telegrafo (University of Bari Aldo Moro)

Marco Moschetta (University of Bari Aldo Moro)

Predicting Glycemia in Diabetic Patients By Evolutionary Computation and Continuous Glucose Monitoring (Page 1393)
J. Ignacio Manuel Colmenar (Rey Juan Carlos University)

Stephan M. Winkler (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria)

Gabriel Kronberger (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria)

Esther Maqueda (Hospital Virgen de la Salud)

Marta Botella (Hospital Universitario Príncipe de Asturias)

J. Ignacio Hidalgo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

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MBEA 2016 Workshop

GECCO'16 Model-Based Evolutionary Algorithms (MBEA) Workshop Chairs' Welcome (Page 1401)
Peter A. N. Bosman (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))

John McCall (Robert Gordon University)

Pareto Inspired Multi-objective Rule Fitness for Adaptive Rule-based Machine Learning (Page 1403)
Ryan J. Urbanowicz (University of Pennsylvania)

Randal S. Olson (University of Pennsylvania)

Jason H. Moore (University of Pennsylvania)

Code Fragments: Past and Future use in Transfer Learning (Page 1405)
Will N. Browne (Victoria University of Wellington)

Hands-on Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (Page 1407)
Ryan J. Urbanowicz (University of Pennsylvania)

Will N. Browne (Victoria University of Wellington)

Karthik Kuber (Microsoft)

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IWERML 2016 Workshop

International Workshop on Evolutionary Rule-Based Machine Learning Workshop (IWERML) Welcome & Organization (Page 1409)
Karthik Kuber (Microsoft)

Masaya Nakata (The University of Electro-Communications)

Kamran Shafi (University of New South Wales)

Visualisation and Analysis of Genetic Records Produced by Cartesian Genetic Programming (Page 1411)
Lukas Sekanina (Brno University of Technology)

Vlastimil Kapusta (Brno University of Technology)

Visualizing Genetic Programming Ancestries (Page 1419)
Nicholas Freitag McPhee (University of Minnesota, Morris)

Maggie M. Casale (University of Minnesota, Morris)

Mitchell Finzel (University of Minnesota, Morris)

Thomas Helmuth (Washing and Lee University)

Lee Spector (Hampshire College)

Visualizing for Success: How Can we Make the User more Efficient in Interactive Evolutionary Algorithms? (Page 1427)
Juan-J. Merelo (ETSIIT+CITIC, UGR)

Mario García Valdez (Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana)

Carlos Cotta (Universidad de Málaga)

Enabling Dominance Resistance in Visualisable Distance-Based Many-Objective Problems (Page 1429)
Jonathan E. Fieldsend (University of Exeter)

Learning Features for Discriminative Behavior Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms via Slow Feature Analysis (Page 1437)
Chengshan Pang (University of Science and Technology of China)

Mang Wang (University of Science and Technology of China)

Weiming Liu (University of Science and Technology of China)

Bin Li (University of Science and Technology of China)

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VizGEC 2016 Workshop

Visualisation Methods in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (VizGEC 2016) Chairs' Welcome & Organization (Page 1445)
David Walker (University of Exeter)

Jonathan Fieldsend (University of Exeter)

Richard Everson (University of Exeter)

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Women@GECCO 2016 Workshop

Women@GECCO 2016 Chairs' Welcome (Page 1447)
Carola Doerr (CNRS & Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6)

Julia Handl (University of Manchester)

Emma Hart (Edinburgh Napier University)

Gabriela Ochoa (University of Stirling)

Amarda Shehu (George Mason University)

Tea Tušar (INRIA Lille - Nord Europe)

Anya E. Vostinar (Michigan State University)

Christine Zarges (University of Birmingham)

Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University)

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Late-Breaking Abstracts

Late-Breaking Abstracts Workshop at GECCO'16: Chair's Welcome (Page 1451)
Francisco Chicano (University of Málaga)

A Multimodal Adaptive Genetic Clustering Algorithm (Page 1453)
Sawsan Al-Malak (King Saud University)

Manar Hosny (King Saud University)

BeamGA Median: A Hybrid Heuristic Search Framework (Page 1455)
Ghada Badr (King Saud University)

Manar Hosny (King Saud University)

Nuha Bintayyash (King Saud University)

Eman Albilali (King Saud University)

Souad Larabi Marie-Sainte (King Saud University)

Nearing Stroop Effect Replication via Neuroevolution (Page 1457)
Amit Benbassat (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Avishai Henik (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Reducing Energy Consumption in Smart Cities: A Scatter Search Based Approach [Extended Abstract] (Page 1459)
Olfa Chebbi (Higher Institute of Management of Tunis)

Nouha Nouri (Higher Institute of Management of Tunis)

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Feature Selection using Genetic Algorithm: An Analysis of the Bias-Property for One-Point Crossover (Page 1461)
Lauro C. M. de Paula (Federal Unviersity of Goias)

Anderson S. Soares (Federal Unviersity of Goias)

Telma Woerle de Lima (Federal Unviersity of Goias)

Clarimar J. Coelho (Pontifical Catholic University of Goias)

Discovery Motifs by Evolutionary Computation (Page 1463)
Jader C. Garbelini (Federal University of Technology of Paraná)

André Y. Kashiwabara (Federal University of Technology of Paraná)

Danilo S. Sanches (Federal University of Technology of Paraná)

Are Evolutionary Computation-Based Methods Comparable to State-of-the-Art non-Evolutionary Methods for Community Detection? (Page 1465)
Ami Hauptman (Sapir Academic College)

On Development of a New Approach for EA Acceleration in Chosen Large Optimization Problems of Mechanics (Page 1467)
Janusz Orkisz (Cracow University of Technology)

Maciej Glowacki (Cracow University of Technology)

Comparison between Golden Ball Meta-heuristic, Evolutionary Simulated Annealing and Tabu Search for the Traveling Salesman Problem (Page 1469)
Eneko Osaba (University of Deusto)

Roberto Carballedo (University of Deusto)

Pedro López-Garcia (University of Deusto)

Fernando Diaz (University of Deusto)

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TIMON Project: Description and Preliminary Tests for Traffic Prediction Using Evolutionary Techniques (Page 1471)
Eneko Osaba (University of Deusto)

Pedro López-Garcia (University of Deusto)

Antonio D. Masegosa (University of Deusto)

Enrique Onieva (University of Deusto)

Hugo Landaluce (University of Deusto)

Asier Perallos (University of Deusto)

Schemata Bandits for MAXSAT (Page 1473)
Nixon K. Ronoh (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Edna Milgo (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Ambrose K. Kiprop (Moi University)

Bernard Manderick (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Multiobjective Discrete Differential Evolution for Service Restoration in Energy Distribution Systems (Page 1475)
Danilo S. Sanches (Federal University of Technology of Paraná)

João Bosco A. London Jr. (University of São Paulo)

Alexandre C. B. Delbem (University of São Paulo)

Increasing the Throughput of Expensive Evaluations Through a Vector Based Genetic Programming Framework (Page 1477)
Jason Zutty (Georgia Tech Research Institute)

Daniel Long (Georgia Tech Research Institute)

Gregory Rohling (Georgia Tech Research Institute)