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Papers Nominated for Best Paper Awards

In 2002, ISGEC created a best paper award for GECCO. As part of the double blind peer review, the reviewers were asked to nominate papers for best paper awards. We continue the tradition this year. The Track Chairs, Editor in Chief, and the Conference Chair nominated the papers that received the most nominations and/or the highest evaluation scores for consideration by the conference. The winners are chosen by secret ballot of the GECCO attendees after the papers have been orally presented at the conference. Best Paper winners are posted on the conference website. The titles and authors of all nominated papers, as well as the page numbers where to find them in the Proceedings, are given below:

 

 

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Track Name   Track Name

Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

Generative and Developmental Systems

Artificial Life, Evolutionary Robotics and Evolvable Hardware

Genetic Algorithms

Bioinformatics, Computational, Systems, and Synthetic Biology

Genetic Programming

Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts

Genetics-Based Machine Learning

Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics

Real World Applications

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms

Search Based Software Engineering

Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

Self-* Search

Evolutionary Strategies and Evolutionary Programming

Theory

 

Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence Track

An Incremental Ant Colony Algorithm with Local Search for Continuous Optimization (Page 125)
Tianjun Liao (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Marco A. Montes de Oca (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Doğan Aydın (Ege University)
Thomas Stützle (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Marco Dorigo (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

 

Artificial Life/Robotics/Evolvable Hardware Track

Evolution of Neural Symmetry and Its Coupled Alignment to Body Plan Morphology (Page 235)
Ben Jones (University of Birmingham)
Andrea Soltoggio (Bielefeld University)
Bernhard Sendhoff (Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH)
Xin Yao (University of Birmingham)

Digital Enzymes: Agents of Reaction Inside Robotic Controllers for the Foraging Problem (Page 243)
Chad M. Byers (Michigan State University)
Betty H.C. Cheng (Michigan State University)
Philip K. McKinley (Michigan State University)

Spontaneous Evolution of Structural Modularity in Robot Neural Network Controllers: Artificial Life/Robotics/Evolvable Hardware (Page 251)
Josh C. Bongard (University of Vermont)

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Bioinformatics, Computational, Systems, and Synthetic Biology Track

A Novel Probabilistic Encoding for EAs Applied to Biclustering of Microarray Data (Page 339)
Michaël Marcozzi (University of Namur)
Federico Divina (Pablo de Olavide University)
Jesús S. Aguilar-Ruiz (Pablo de Olavide University)
Wim Vanhoof (University of Namur)

A Genetic Algorithm to Enhance Transmembrane Helices Prediction (Page 347)
Nazar Zaki (United Arab Emirates University)
Salah Bouktif (United Arab Emirates University)
Sanja Lazarova-Molnar (United Arab Emirates University)

 

Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts Track Papers

Interactively Evolving Harmonies Through Functional Scaffolding (Page 387)
Amy K. Hoover (University of Central Florida)
Paul A. Szerlip (University of Central Florida)
Kenneth O. Stanley (University of Central Florida)

Interactive Evolution for the Procedural Generation of Tracks in a High-End Racing Game (Page 395)
Luigi Cardamone (Politecnico di Milano)
Daniele Loiacono (Politecnico di Milano)
Pier Luca Lanzi (Politecnico di Milano)

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Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics Track Papers

A Cooperative Tree-Based Hybrid Ga-B&B Approach for Solving Challenging Permutation-Based Problems (Page 513)
Malika Mehdi (University of Luxembourg)
Jean-Claude Charr (INRIA Lille Nord-Europe)
Nouredine Melab (INRIA Lille Nord-Europe)
El-Ghazali Talbi (INRIA Lille Nord-Europe)
Pascal Bouvry (University of Luxembourg)

An Efficient Hierarchical Parallel Genetic Algorithm for Graph Coloring Problem (Page 521)
Reza Abbasian (University of Regina)
Malek Mouhoub (University of Regina)

Evolving Optimal Agendas for Package Deal Negotiation (Page 505)
Shaheen Fatima (Loughborough University)
Ahmed Kattan (Loughborough University)

 

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Track Papers

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)

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Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Track Papers

Improved S-CDAs Using Crossover Controlling the Number of Crossed Genes for Many-Objective Optimization (Page 753)
Hiroyuki Sato (The University of Electro-Communications)
Hernán E. Aguirre (Shinshu University)
Kiyoshi Tanaka (Shinshu University)

Many-Objective Directed Evolutionary Line Search (Page 761)
Evan J. Hughes (Cranfield University)

Convergence of Hypervolume-Based Archiving Algorithms I: Effectiveness (Page 745)
Karl Bringmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik)
Tobias Friedrich (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik)

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Evolution Strategies and Evolutionary Programming Track Papers

Mirrored Sampling in Evolution Strategies with Weighted Recombination (Page 861)
Anne Auger (INRIA Saclay Île-de-France)
Dimo Brockhoff (Ecole Polytechnique)
Nikolaus Hansen (INRIA Saclay Île-de-France)

Local-Meta-Model CMA-ES for Partially Separable Functions (Page 869)
Zyed Bouzarkouna (IFP Energies nouvelles)
Anne Auger (INRIA Saclay Île-de-France)
Didier Yu Ding (IFP Energies nouvelles)

 

Generative and Developmental Systems Track Papers

On the Relationships Between Synaptic Plasticity and Generative Systems (Page 1531)
Paul Tonelli (ISIR, Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Jean-Baptiste Mouret (ISIR, Université Pierre et Marie Curie)

Enhancing ES-HyperNEAT to Evolve More Complex Regular Neural Networks (Page 1539)
Sebastian Risi (University of Central Florida)
Kenneth O. Stanley (University of Central Florida)

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Genetic Algorithms Track Papers

How Crossover Helps in Pseudo-Boolean Optimization (Page 989)
Timo Kötzing (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik)
Dirk Sudholt (University of Birmingham)
Madeleine Theile (Technische Universität Berlin)

Pairwise and Problem-Specific Distance Metrics in the Linkage Tree Genetic Algorithm (Page 1005)
Martin Pelikan (University of Missouri, St. Louis)
Mark W. Hauschild (University of Missouri, St. Louis)
Dirk Thierens (Utrecht University)

 

Genetic Programming Track Papers

Reassembling Operator Equalisation - A Secret Revealed (Page 1395)
Sara Silva (INESC-ID Lisboa & University of Coimbra)

Rethinking Multilevel Selection in Genetic Programming (Page 1403)
Shelly X. Wu (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Wolfgang Banzhaf (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

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Genetics Based Machine Learning Track Papers

Evolving Spiking Networks with Variable Memristors (Page 1275)
Gerard Howard (University of the West of England)
Ella Gale (University of the West of England)
Larry Bull (University of the West of England)
Ben de Lacy Costello (University of the West of England)
Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England)

XCS Cannot Learn All Boolean Functions (Page 1283)
Charalambos Ioannides (University of Bristol)
Geoff Barrett (Broadcom Corporation)
Kerstin Eder (University of Bristol)

Modelling the Initialisation Stage of the ALKR Representation for Discrete Domains and GABIL Encoding (Page 1291)
María A. Franco (University of Nottingham)
Natalio Krasnogor (University of Nottingham)
Jaume Bacardit (University of Nottingham)

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Real World Applications Track Papers

RankDE: Learning a Ranking Function for Information Retrieval Using Differential Evolution (Page 1771)
Danushka Bollegala (The University of Tokyo)
Nasimul Noman (The University of Tokyo)
Hitoshi Iba (The University of Tokyo)

Application of Evolutionary Algorithms in Detecting SMS Spam at Access Layer (Page 1787)
M Zubair Rafique (King Saud University)
Nasser Alrayes (King Saud University)
Muhammad Khurram Khan (King Saud University)

GPU-Accelerated High-Accuracy Molecular Docking Using Guided Differential Evolution: GECCO 2011 - Real World Applications (Page 1803)
Martin Simonsen (Aarhus University)
Christian N. S. Pedersen (Aarhus University)
Mikael H. Christensen (Molegro ApS)
René Thomsen (Molegro ApS)

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Search-Based Software Engineering Track Papers

Searching for Invariants Using Genetic Programming and Mutation Testing (Page 1907)
Sam Ratcliff (University of York)
David R. White (University of York)
John A. Clark (University of York)

Using Multi-Objective Metaheuristics to Solve the Software Project Scheduling Problem (Page 1915)
Francisco Chicano (University of Málaga)
Francisco Luna (University of Málaga)
Antonio J. Nebro (University of Málaga)
Enrique Alba (University of Málaga)

Finding Short Counterexamples in Promela Models Using Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (Page 1923)
Jan Staunton (University of York)
John A. Clark (University of York)

 

Self-* Search Track

Policy Matrix Evolution for Generation of Heuristics (Page 2011)
Ender Özcan (University of Nottingham)
Andrew J. Parkes (University of Nottingham)

Automatic Configuration of State-of-the-art Multi-objective Optimizers Using the TP+PLS Framework (Page 2019)
Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Manuel López-Ibáńez (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Thomas Stützle (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

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Theory Track

An Analysis on Recombination in Multi-Objective Evolutionary Optimization (Page 2051)
Chao Qian (Nanjing University)
Yang Yu (Nanjing University)
Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University)

The Effects of Selection on Noisy Fitness Optimization (Page 2059)
Sergiu Goschin (Rutgers University)
Michael L. Littman (Rutgers University)
David H. Ackley (University of New Mexico)