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GECCO'11 Posters: Table of Contents

Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence

Genetic Algorithms

Artificial Life, Evolutionary Robotics and Evolvable Hardware

Genetic Programming

Bioinformatics, Computational, Systems, and Synthetic Biology

Genetics-Based Machine Learning

Digital Entertainment Technologies & Arts

Parallel Evolutionary Systems

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

Generative and Developmental Systems

   

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Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence Track Posters

Estimating Swarm Parameters by Evolutionary Learning (Page 1)
Richard D. Coates (University of York)
Simon J. Hickinbotham (University of York)

Mechanism of Failure Diagnosis Based on Language Games and Q-learning over a Termites Simulator (Page 3)
Arles Ernesto Rodríguez Portela (National University of Colombia)
Jonatan Gómez Perdomo (National University of Colombia)

Different Versions of Particle Swarm Optimization for Magnetic Problems (Page 5)
Tomasz M. Gwizda??a (University of ?ód?)

Optimizing Stacking Ensemble by an Ant Colony Optimization Approach (Page 7)
Yijun Chen (Lingnan University)
Man Leung Wong (Lingnan University)

Animations Rendered by Braitenberg Vehicles (Page 9)
Perry Barile (RMIT University)
Victor Ciesielski (RMIT University)

Optimal Relay Station Placement in Cooperative Networks using Particle Swarm (Page 11)
Samreen Umer (National University of Science and Technology)
Adnan Ahmed Khan (National University of Science and Technology)

A Detailed Analysis of the Population-Based Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for the TSP and the QAP (Page 13)
Sabrina Oliveira (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Mohamed Saifullah Hussin (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Thomas Stützle (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Andrea Roli (Universitá di Bologna)
Marco Dorigo (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)

An Ant Colony Optimization Approach for Efficient Admission Scheduling of Elective Inpatients (Page 15)
Ying Lin (Sun Yat-sen University)
Jun Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University)

Particle Swarm Optimization for Multi-Label Classification (Page 17)
Tiago Amador Coelho (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG)
Ahmed Ali Abdalla Esmin (Universidade Federal de Lavras - UFLA)
Wagner Meira Júnior (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG)

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Artificial Life/Robotics/Evolvable Hardware Track Posters

Incremental Genetic Programming via Genetic Transposition (Page 19)
Ivan Tanev (Doshisha University)
Tüze Kuyucu (Doshisha University)
Katsunori Shimohara (Doshisha University)

Biologically Inspired Control of a Simulated Octopus Arm via Recurrent Neural Networks (Page 21)
Kohei Nakajima (University of Zurich)
Tao Li (University of Zurich)
Naveen Kuppuswamy (University of Zurich)
Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich)

Effects of Biased Group Selection on Cooperative Predation in Digital Organisms (Page 23)
Daniel J. Couvertier (Michigan State University)
Philip K. McKinley (Michigan State University)

Emergence of Altruism in Open-Ended Evolution in a Population of Autonomous Agents (Page 25)
Jean-Marc Montanier (Université Paris-Sud, INRIA, CNRS)
Nicolas Bredeche (Université Paris-Sud, INRIA, CNRS)

Embodied Artificial Evolution: The Future of Artificial Evolutionary Systems (Page 27)
A. E. Eiben (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
N. Ferreira (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
M. C. Schut (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
S. Kernbach (University of Stuttgart)

Genetic Clustering for the Identification of Species (Page 29)
Jaimie Murdock (Indiana University)
Larry S. Yaeger (Indiana University)

Generating Gaits for Physical Quadruped Robots: Evolved Neural Networks Vs. Local Parameterized Search (Page 31)
Jason Yosinski (Cornell University)
Jeff Clune (Cornell University)
Diana Hidalgo (Cornell University)
Sarah Nguyen (Cornell University)
Juan Cristobal Zagal (University of Chile)
Hod Lipson (Cornell University)

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Bioinformatics, Computational, Systems, and Synthetic Biology Track Posters

Ion Channel Modeling with Analog Circuit Evolution (Page 33)
Theodore W. Cornforth (Cornell University)
Jim Torresen (University of Oslo)
Hod Lipson (Cornell University)

Optimization of Grammatical Evolution Decision Trees (Page 35)
Kristopher Hoover (North Carolina State University)
Rachel Marceau (North Carolina State University)
Tyndall Harris (North Carolina State University)
Nicholas Hardison (North Carolina State University)
David Reif (North Carolina State University)
Alison Motsinger-Reif (North Carolina State University)

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Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts Track Posters

Comparing Paired Comparison-based Interactive DE and Tournament Interactive GA on Stained Glass Design (Page 37)
Denis Pallez (Université de Nice Sophia)
Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Célia da Costa Pereira (Université de Nice Sophia)

An Adaptive Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Typical Chess Problems for Tuning a Chess Evaluation Function (Page 39)
Eduardo Vázquez-Fernández (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN)
Carlos A. Coello Coello (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN)
Feliú D. Sagols Troncoso (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN)

Evolutionary Music Composition based on Zipf's Law (Page 41)
Johannes H. Jensen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Pauline C. Haddow (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Interactive Operators for Evolutionary Architectural Design (Page 43)
Jonathan Byrne (University College Dublin)
Erik Hemberg (University College Dublin)
Michael O'Neill (University College Dublin)

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Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics Track Posters

A Memetic Algorithm for Solving Multiperiod Vehicle Routing Problem with Profit (Page 45)
Chan Hou Che (City University of Hong Kong)
Zizhen Zhang (City University of Hong Kong)
Andrew Lim (City University of Hong Kong)

An Expertise-Guided Multi-Criteria Approach to Scheduling Problems (Page 47)
Christian Grimme (TU Dortmund University)
Markus Kemmerling (TU Dortmund University)
Joachim Lepping (TU Dortmund University)

Evolving Solutions of Mixed-model Assembly Line Balancing Problems by Chaining Heuristic Optimization Methods (Page 49)
Santiago Enrique Conant-Pablos (ITESM Campus Monterrey)
Halley Jarumy Ferrer-Soriano (ITESM Campus Monterrey)
Hugo Terashima-Marín (ITESM Campus Monterrey)

Guided Local Search for the Optimal Communication Spanning Tree Problem (Page 51)
Wolfgang Steitz (University of Mainz)
Franz Rothlauf (University of Mainz)

Dynamic Regional Harmony Search with Opposition and Local Learning (Page 53)
A. K. Qin (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes)
Florence Forbes (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes)

Quantum-Inspired Tabu Search Algorithm for Solving 0/1 Knapsack Problems (Page 55)
Chia-Hui Chiu (National Chi-Nan University)
Yi-Jyuan Yang (National Chi-Nan University)
Yao-Hsin Chou (National Chi-Nan University)

Comparing the Performance of Evolutionary Algorithms for Permutation Constraint Satisfaction (Page 57)
Luis de-Marcos (University of Alcalá)
Antonio García (University of Alcalá)
Eva García (University of Alcalá)
José-Amelio Medina (University of Alcalá)
Salvador Otón (University of Alcalá)

Addition Chain Length Minimization with Evolutionary Programming (Page 59)
Saúl Domínguez-Isidro (Laboratorio Nacional de Informática Avanzada)
Efrén Mezura-Montes (Laboratorio Nacional de Informática Avanzada)
Luis G. Osorio-Hernández (Laboratorio Nacional de Informática Avanzada)

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Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Track Posters

A Test Function with Full Controllability over Overlapping (Page 61)
Jen-Hao Chang (National Taiwan University)
Chung-Hsiang Hsueh (National Taiwan University)
Hsuan Lee (National Taiwan University)
Tian-Li Yu (National Taiwan University)
Tsung-Yu Ho (National Taiwan University)

Importance Sampling Regularization for Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (Page 63)
Takayuki Higo (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry)

Candidate Oversampling Prefers Two to Tango (Page 65)
David Wallin (University of Limerick)
Conor Ryan (University of Limerick)
R. Muhammad Atif Azad (University of Limerick)

Solving Multimodal Combinatorial Puzzles with Edge-Based Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (Page 67)
Warin Wattanapornprom (Chulalongkorn University)
Prabhas Chongstitvatana (Chulalongkorn University)

The Gaussian Polytree EDA for Global Optimization (Page 69)
Ignacio Segovia Domínguez (Centre for Research in Mathematics)
Arturo Hernández Aguirre (Centre for Research in Mathematics)
Enrique Villa Diharce (Centre for Research in Mathematics)

Interaction Detection by NFE Estimation (Page 71)
Kai-Chun Fan (National Taiwan University)
Tian-Li Yu (National Taiwan University)
Jui-Ting Lee (National Taiwan University)

Efficient EDA for Large Opimization Problems via Constraining the Search Space of Models (Page 73)
Elham Salehi (University of Windsor)
Robin Gras (University of Windsor)

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Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Track Posters

Integration of NSGA-II and MOEA/D in Multimethod Search Approach (Page 75)
Wali Khan Mashwani (University of Essex)

Attraction Based PSO with Sphere Search for Dynamic Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization Problems (Page 77)
Jingxuan Wei (Xidian University)
Mengjie Zhang (Victory University of Wellington)

LAMM-MMA: Multiobjective Memetic Algorithm with Local Aggregate Meta-Model (Page 79)
Martin Pilát (Charles University in Prague)
Roman Neruda (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)

A Stamina-Aware Sightseeing Tour Scheduling Method (Page 81)
Bing Wu (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Weihua Sun (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Yoshihiro Murata (Hiroshima City University)
Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Minoru Ito (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization for Emergency Medical Services (Page 83)
Javier López (III-LIDI - Fac.de Informática -UNLP)
Laura Lanzarini (III-LIDI - Fac.de Informática -UNLP)
Armando De Giusti (III-LIDI - Fac.de Informática -UNLP)

Spatio-Temporal Data Evolutionary Clustering Based on MOEA/D (Page 85)
Jingjing Ma (Xidian University)
Yanhui Wang (Xidian University)
Maoguo Gong (Xidian University)
Licheng Jiao (Xidian University)
Qingfu Zhang (University of Essex)

Uncertainty based Evolutionary Optimisation (Page 87)
Stefano Suardi (Pisa University)
Rajkumar Roy (Cranfield University)
Jorn Mehnen (Cranfield University)
Yoseph T. Azene (Cranfield University)

A Multi-Objective Window Optimisation Problem (Page 89)
Alexander E. I. Brownlee (Loughborough University)
Jonathan A. Wright (Loughborough University)
Monjur M. Mourshed (Loughborough University)

Quantitative Genetics in Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms: From Useful Insights to Effective Methods (Page 91)
Roberto Santana (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Hossein Karshenas (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Concha Bielza (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Pedro Larrañaga (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

KKT Proximity Measure for Testing Convergence in Smooth Multi-objective Optimization (Page 93)
Rupesh Tulshyan (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Kalyanmoy Deb (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Sunith Bandaru (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)

Clustering based Leaders' Selection in Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (Page 95)
Noura Al Moubayed (Robert Gordon University)
Andrei Petrovski (Robert Gordon University)
John McCall (Robert Gordon University)

Considerations of the Nature of the Relationship Between Generalization and Interpretability in Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems (Page 97)
Adam Ghandar (University of Adelaide)
Zbigniew Michalewicz (University of Adelaide, Polish Academy of Sciences & Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology)

JGBL Paradigm: A Novel Strategy to Enhance the Exploration Ability of NSGA-II (Page 99)
Ke Li (City University of Hong Kong)
Sam Kwong (City University of Hong Kong)
Kim-Fung Man (City University of Hong Kong)

Adaptive Shifting of Auxiliary Strategies Over Three Formulations of Multicast Routing Problem (Page 101)
Marcos Luiz de Paula Bueno (Federal University of Uberlândia)
Gina Maira Barbosa de Oliveira (Federal University of Uberlândia)

A Novel Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithm Based on Artificial Bee Colony (Page 103)
Wenping Zou (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Yunlong Zhu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Hanning Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Hai Shen (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

A Classification of Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization Problems (Page 105)
Alexandru-Adrian Tantar (University of Luxembourg)
Emilia Tantar (University of Luxembourg)
Pascal Bouvry (University of Luxembourg)

Rank-based Dimension Reduction for Many-criteria Populations (Page 107)
David J. Walker (University of Exeter)
Richard M. Everson (University of Exeter)
Jonathan E. Fieldsend (University of Exeter)

Integrating Niching into the Predator-Prey Model Using Epsilon-Constraints (Page 109)
Christian Grimme (TU Dortmund University)
Joachim Lepping (TU Dortmund University)

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Evolution Strategies and Evolutionary Programming Track Posters

Adaptive Parameter Selection for Strategy Adaptation in Differential Evolution (Page 111)
Wenyin Gong (China University of Geosciences)
Zhihua Cai (China University of Geosciences)

A Robust Memetic Algorithm with Self-stopping Capabilities (Page 113)
José L. Guerrero (University Carlos III of Madrid)
Antonio Berlanga (University Carlos III of Madrid)
José M. Molina (University Carlos III of Madrid)

(1+2)-Evolution Strategy for Fitting a Straight Shuffle of Min to a Dataset (Page 115)
Alfredo Cuesta-Infante (Felipe II College)
José Ignacio Hidalgo (University Complutense de Madrid)
María Victoria Rivas (Felipe II College)

Designing Artificial Tetris Players with Evolution Strategies and Racing (Page 117)
Amine Boumaza (Université Lille Nord de France)

Noisy Optimization with Sequential Parameter Optimization and Optimal Computational Budget Allocation (Page 119)
Thomas Bartz-Beielstein (Cologne University of Applied Sciences)
Martina Friese (Cologne University of Applied Sciences)
Martin Zaefferer (Cologne University of Applied Sciences)
Boris Naujoks (Cologne University of Applied Sciences)
Oliver Flasch (Cologne University of Applied Sciences)
Wolfgang Konen (Cologne University of Applied Sciences)
Patrick Koch (Cologne University of Applied Sciences)

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Genetic Algorithms Track Posters

Comparison of Cooperative, Multiobjective Cooperative and Classical Evolutionary Algorithms for Global Supply Chain Optimisation (Page 121)
Maksud Ibrahimov (University of Adelaide)
Arvind Mohais (SolveIT Software, Pty Ltd.)
Sven Schellenberg (SolveIT Software, Pty Ltd.)
Zbigniew Michalewicz (University of Adelaide, Polish Academy of Sciences & Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology)

A Guide for Fitness Function Design (Page 123)
Josh L. Wilkerson (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
Daniel R. Tauritz (Missouri University of Science and Technology)

A New Packing Method for Two Dimensional Rectilinear Polygons using Genetic Algorithm (Page 125)
Mitsukuni Matayoshi (Okinawa International University)

Importance of Information Exchange in Quasi-Parallel Genetic Algorithms (Page 127)
Guan Wang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Degang Wu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Wenjin Chen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Kwok Yip Szeto (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Fecundity and Selectivity in Evolutionary Computation (Page 129)
Lee Spector (Hampshire College)
Thomas Helmuth (University of Massachusetts)
Kyle Harrington (Brandeis University)

Genetic Algorithms as a Pre Processing Strategy for Imbalanced Datasets (Page 131)
Marcelo Beckmann (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Beatriz Souza L. P. de Lima (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Nelson F. F. Ebecken (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

Geometric Surrogate-Based Optimisation for Permutation-Based Problems (Page 133)
Alberto Moraglio (University of Kent)
Yong-Hyuk Kim (Kwangwoon University)
Yourim Yoon (Seoul National University)

Controlling the Tradeoff between Time and Quality by Considering the Reproductive Potential of Offspring (Page 135)
Eddy Parkinson (The University of Adelaide)
Adam Ghandar (The University of Adelaide)
Zbigniew Michalewicz (The University of Adelaide)
Andrew Tuson (City University London)

Analysis of Properties of Recombination Operators Proposed for the Node-Depth Encoding (Page 137)
Telma Woerle de Lima (Federal University of Goias)
Alexandre Claudio Botazzo Delbem (Univesity of Sao Paulo)
Franz Rothlauf (University of Mainz)

A Trading Method in FX Using Evolutionary Algorithms (Page 139)
Badarch Tserenchimed (The University of Tokyo)
Shu Liu (The University of Tokyo)
Hitoshi Iba (The University of Tokyo)

Empirical Analysis of Cooperative Coevolution using Blind Decomposition (Page 141)
Min Shi (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Differential Evolution with Improved Population Reduction (Page 143)
Ming Yang (China University of Geosciences)
Zhihua Cai (China University of Geosciences)
Jing Guan (China University of Geosciences)
Wenyin Gong (China University of Geosciences)

Visual Analytics of EA Data (Page 145)
Evelyne Lutton (INRIA Saclay - Île-de-France, Université Paris-Sud)
Jean-Daniel Fekete (INRIA Saclay - Île-de-France, Université Paris-Sud)

Noise, Fitness Distribution, and Selection Intensity in Genetic Algorithms (Page 147)
Timothy Meekhof (University of Idaho)
Terence Soule (University of Idaho)

DXNN: Evolving Complex Organisms in Complex Environments Using a Novel TWEANN System (Page 149)
Gene Sher (Independent Researcher)

Large Scale Empirical Analysis of Cooperative Coevolution (Page 151)
Sean Luke (George Mason University)
Keith Sullivan (George Mason University)
Faisal Abidi (George Mason University)

A Multiset Genetic Algorithm for Real Coded Problems (Page 153)
António Manso (Instituto Polytécnico de Tomar & Universidade de Lisboa)
Luís Miguel Parreira Correia (Universidade de Lisboa)

Meta-Evolved Empirical Evidence of the Effectiveness of Dynamic Parameters (Page 155)
Brian W. Goldman (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
Daniel R. Tauritz (Missouri University of Science and Technology)

Raising Mutation Rate in the Context of Hybrid Genetic Algorithms (Page 157)
Yu-Min Son (Seoul National University)
Byung-Ro Moon (Seoul National University)

A Multi-objective Memetic Algorithm for Relay Node Placement in Wireless Sensor Network (Page 159)
Jing-hui Zhong (Sun Yat-sen University)
Jun Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University)

The Effect of Selection from Old Populations in Genetic Algorithms (Page 161)
Mauro Castelli (Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca)
Luca Manzoni (Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca)
Leonardo Vanneschi (Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca)

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Genetics Based Machine Learning Track Posters

Evolving Time-Lagged Feedforward Neural Networks for Time Series Forecasting (Page 163)
Juan Peralta Donate (University Carlos III of Madrid)
Paulo Cortez (University of Minho)
German Gutierrez Sanchez (University Carlos III of Madrid)
Araceli Sanchis de Miguel (University Carlos III of Madrid)

Evolving Associative Classifier for Incomplete Database Using Genetic Network Programming (Page 165)
Kaoru Shimada (Fukuoka Industry, Science and Technology Foundation & Waseda University)
Kotaro Hirasawa (Waseda University)

Fuzzy Dynamical Genetic Programming in XCSF (Page 167)
Richard J. Preen (University of the West of England)
Larry Bull (University of the West of England)

Fast Prediction Computation in Learning Classifier Systems Using CUDA (Page 169)
Daniele Loiacono (Politecnico di Milano)

A Multi-Objective Memetic Algorithm for the Linguistic Summarization of Time Series (Page 171)
Rita Castillo-Ortega (University of Granada)
Nicolás Marín (University of Granada)
Daniel Sánchez (European Centre for Soft Computing)
Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi (Università degli Studi di Milano)

Using Bayesian Networks for Selecting Classifiers in GP Ensembles (Page 173)
Claudio De Stefano (Universitá di Cassino)
Francesco Fontanella (Universitá di Cassino)
Alessandra Scotto di Freca (Universitá di Cassino)
Gianluigi Folino (ICAR - CNR)

How Many Neurons? A Genetic Programming Answer (Page 175)
Leonardo Trujillo (Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana)
Yuliana Martínez (Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana)
Patricia Melin (Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana)

Evolution of Reward Functions for Reinforcement Learning (Page 177)
Scott Niekum (University of Massachusetts)
Lee Spector (Hampshire College)
Andrew Barto (University of Massachusetts)

A Memory Scheme for Genetic Network Programming with Adaptive Mutation (Page 179)
Fengming Ye (Waseda University)
Shingo Mabu (Waseda University)
Kotaro Hirasawa (Waseda University)

Confusion Matrices for Improving Performance of Feature Pattern Classifier Systems (Page 181)
Ignas Kukenys (Victoria University of Wellington)
Will N. Browne (Victoria University of Wellington)
Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington)

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Genetic Programming Track Posters

Dynamic Ant: Introducing a New Benchmark for Genetic Programming in Dynamic Environments (Page 183)
David Fagan (University College Dublin)
Miguel Nicolau (University College Dublin)
Erik Hemberg (University College Dublin)
Michael O'Neill (University College Dublin)
Anthony Brabazon (University College Dublin)

Empirical Study of Surrogate Models for Black Box Optimizations Obtained Using Symbolic Regression via Genetic Programming (Page 185)
Glen D. Rodriguez Rafael (Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria)
Carlos Javier Solano Salinas (Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria)

Bloat Control in Genetic Programming with a Histogram-based Accept-Reject Method (Page 187)
Marc-André Gardner (Université Laval)
Christian Gagné (Université Laval)
Marc Parizeau (Université Laval)

Intrinsic Evolvable Hardware for Combinatorial Synthesis Based on SoC+FPGA and GPU Platforms (Page 189)
Carlos Camargo Bareño (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
Cesar Pedraza Bonilla (Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino)
Luis Fernado Niño (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
José Martinez Torre (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)

Dynamic Environments Can Speed Up Evolution with Genetic Programming (Page 191)
Michael O'Neill (University College Dublin)
Miguel Nicolau (University College Dublin)
Anthony Brabazon (University College Dublin)

A New Approach for Generating Numerical Constants in Grammatical Evolution (Page 193)
Douglas A. Augusto (Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica)
Helio J. C. Barbosa (Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica)
Andre M. S. Barreto (Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica)
Heder S. Bernardino (Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica)

Analysis of the Effects of Enhanced Selection Concepts for Genetic Programming Based Structure Identification Using Fine-Grained Population Diversity Estimation (Page 195)
Stephan M. Winkler (Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences)
Michael Affenzeller (Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences)
Stefan Wagner (Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences)

SMCGP2: Finding Algorithms that Approximate Numerical Constants Using Quaternions and Complex Numbers (Page 197)
Simon Harding (Memorial University)
Julian F. Miller (University of York)
Wolfgang Banzhaf (Memorial University)

Stateful Program Representations for Evolving Technical Trading Rules (Page 199)
Alexandros Agapitos (University College Dublin)
Michael O'Neill (University College Dublin)
Anthony Brabazon (University College Dublin)

Caching for Parallel Linear Genetic Programming (Page 201)
Carlton Downey (Victoria University of Wellington)
Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington)

Early Stopping Criteria to Counteract Overfitting in Genetic Programming (Page 203)
Clíodhna Tuite (University College Dublin)
Alexandros Agapitos (University College Dublin)
Michael O'Neill (University College Dublin)
Anthony Brabazon (University College Dublin)

Generalisation in Genetic Programming (Page 205)
William B. Langdon (University College London)

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Generative and Developmental Systems Track Posters

Developmental Scalable Hierarchies for Multi-Agent Swarms (Page 207)
Terence Soule (University of Idaho)
Robert B. Heckendorn (University of Idaho)

Dynamic L-Systems in GE (Page 209)
Robin Harper (None)

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Parallel Evolutionary Systems Track Posters

Co-evolutionary Differential Evolution with Dynamic Population Size and Adaptive Migration Strategy (Page 211)
Zhi-hui Zhan (Sun Yat-sen University)
Jun Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University)

A Java-based Parallel Genetic Algorithm for the Land Use Planning Problem (Page 213)
Juan Porta (University of A Coruña)
Jorge Parapar (University of A Coruña)
Guillermo L. Taboada (University of A Coruña)
Ramón Doallo (University of A Coruña)
Francisco F. Rivera (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Inés Santé (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Marcos Suárez (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Marcos Boullón (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Rafael Crecente (University of Santiago de Compostela)

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Real World Applications Track Posters

HIER-HEIR: An Evolutionary System with Hierarchical Representation & Contextual Operators Applied to Fashion Design (Page 215)
Abhinav Malhotra (Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology)
Varun Aggarwal (Aspiring Minds)

Medical Image Segmentation by Hybridizing Ant Colony Optimization and Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm (Page 217)
Jeongmin Yu (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)
Sang-Goog Lee (Catholic University)
Moongu Jeon (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)

Evolving Sparsely Connected Neural Networks for Multi-Step Ahead Forecasting (Page 219)
Juan Peralta Donate (University Carlos III of Madrid)
Paulo Cortez (University of Minho)
German Gutierrez Sanchez (University Carlos III of Madrid)
Araceli Sanchis de Miguel (University Carlos III of Madrid)

Evolving Automatic Frame Splitters (Page 221)
Andy Song (RMIT University)
Feng Xie (RMIT University)

Bio-Inspired Event Dissemination in Dynamic and Decentralized Networks (Page 223)
Adam S. Banzi (Federal University of Paraná)
Aurora T. R. Pozo (Federal University of Paraná)
Elias P. Duarte Jr. (Federal University of Paraná)

Evolutionary Failing-Test Generation for Modern Microprocessors (Page 225)
Ernesto Sanchez (Politecnico di Torino)
Giovanni Squillero (Politecnico di Torino)
Alberto Tonda (Politecnico di Torino)

Performance Analysis of Multiobjective Bio-inspired UAV Path Planners (Page 227)
Eva Besada-Portas (Universidad Complutense Madrid)
Luis de la Torre (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia)
Alejandro Moreno (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia)
Jose Luis Risco-Martin (Universidad Complutense Madrid)

Evolved Election Forecasts: Using Genetic Algorithms in Improving Election Forecast Results (Page 229)
Ronald Hochreiter (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Christoph Waldhauser (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business)

When Does Simulated Data Match Real Data? (Page 231)
Forrest Stonedahl (Northwestern University)
David Anderson (University of Maryland)
William Rand (University of Maryland)

A Cooperative Biomimetic Approach for High Dimensional Data Mining (Page 233)
Lydia Boudjeloud (Université Paul Verlaine - Metz)
Hanane Azzag (institut Galilée)

A Modified Differential Evolution for Autonomous Deployment and Localization of Sensor Nodes (Page 235)
Subhrajit Roy (Jadavpur University)
Sk. Minhazul Izlam (Jadavpur University)
Saurav Ghosh (Jadavpur University)
Swagatam Das (Jadavpur University)
Ajith Abraham (VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava)
Pavel Kromer (VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava)

Genetic Invention of Fast and Optimal Broad-Band Stokes/Mueller Polarimeter Designs (Page 237)
Paul Anton Letnes (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Ingar Stian Nerbø (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Lars Martin Sandvik Aas (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Pål Gunnar Ellingsen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Morten Kildemo (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Genetic Network Programming with Changing Structures for a Novel Stock Selection Model (Page 239)
Victor Parque (Waseda University)
Shingo Mabu (Waseda University)
Kotaro Hirasawa (Waseda University)

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Search-Based Software Engineering Track Posters

Requirements Interaction in the Next Release Problem (Page 241)
José del Sagrado (University of Almeria)
Isabel M. del Águila (University of Almeria)
Francisco J. Orellana (University of Almeria)

Scalability of the Coevolutionary Automated Software Correction System (Page 243)
Josh L. Wilkerson (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
Daniel R. Tauritz (Missouri University of Science and Technology)

Software Clustering by Example (Page 245)
Martin Faunes (Université de Montréal)
Marouane Kessentini (Université de Montréal)
Houari Sahraoui (Université de Montréal)

Automatic Mutation Based Test Data Generation (Page 247)
Mike Papadakis (Athens University of Economics and Business)
Nicos Malevris (Athens University of Economics and Business)

Multi-Objective Genetic Synthesis of Software Architecture (Page 249)
Outi Räihä (Tampere University of Technology)
Kai Koskimies (Tampere University of Technology)
Erkki Mäkinen (University of Tampere)

An Approach to Automatic Input Sequence Generation for GUI Testing using Ant Colony Optimization (Page 251)
Sebastian Bauersfeld (Berner & Mattner Systemtechnik GmbH)
Stefan Wappler (Berner & Mattner Systemtechnik GmbH)
Joachim Wegener (Berner & Mattner Systemtechnik GmbH)

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Self-* Search Track Posters

Social Adaptive Groups: A New Approach for Evolutionary Optimisation Based on Social Behaviour Evolution (Page 253)
Mikdam Turkey (University of Essex)
Riccardo Poli (University of Essex)

On the Idea of Evolving Decision Matrix Hyper-Heuristics for Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems (Page 255)
José Carlos Ortiz-Bayliss (Tecnológico de Monterrey)
Hugo Terashima-Marín (Tecnológico de Monterrey)
Ender Özcan (University of Nottingham)
Andrew J. Parkes (University of Nottingham)

A Hyper-Heuristic for Solving One and Two-Dimensional Bin Packing Problems (Page 257)
Eunice López-Camacho (ITESM)
Hugo Terashima-Marín (ITESM)
Peter Ross (Napier University)

Instance-Based Parameter Tuning for Evolutionary AI Planning (Page 259)
Mátyás Brendel (INRIA Saclay & LRI, Université Paris-Sud)
Marc Schoenauer (INRIA Saclay & LRI, Université Paris-Sud)

Evolution of Neural Networks Topologies and Learning Parameters to Produce Hyper-Heuristics for Constraint Satisfaction Problems (Page 261)
José Carlos Ortiz-Bayliss (Tecnológico de Monterrey)
Hugo Terashima-Marín (Tecnológico de Monterrey)
Peter Ross (University of Napier)
Santiago Enrique Conant-Pablos (Tecnológico de Monterrey)

Simultaneous Tuning of Metaheuristic Parameters for Various Computing Budgets (Page 263)
Juergen Branke (University of Warwick)
Jawad Elomari (University of Warwick)

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Theory Track Posters

Collisions Are Helpful for Computing Unique Input-Output Sequences (Page 265)
Chao Qian (Nanjing University)
Yang Yu (Nanjing University)
Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University)

Simple Tools for Multimodal Optimization (Page 267)
Marc Schoenauer (Université Paris-Sud - INRIA)
Fabien Teytaud (Université Paris-Sud - INRIA)
Olivier Teytaud (Université Paris-Sud - INRIA)

Population Diversity Index: A New Measure for Population Diversity (Page 269)
S. K. Smit (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Zoltan Szlavik (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
A. E. Eiben (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)