GECCO'11 Proceedings Table of Contents

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

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

GECCO'11 Editors

ACM SIGEVO Officers and Executive Committee

GECCO'11 Conference Organizers

GECCO'11 Program Committee Members

GECCO'11 Proceedings Author Index

GECCO'11 Proceedings ACM Copyright & Permissions Information

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

Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence Track Papers

A Performance Study on Synchronous and Asynchronous Updates in Particle Swarm Optimization (Page 21)
Juan Rada-Vilela (Victoria University of Wellington)
Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington)
Winston Seah (Victoria University of Wellington)

Particle Swarm Optimisation with Gradually Increasing Directed Neighbourhoods (Page 29)
Hongliang Liu (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Enda Howely (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Jim Duggan (National University of Ireland, Galway)

An Investigation into the Merger of Stochastic Diffusion Search and Particle Swarm Optimisation (Page 37)
Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie (University of London)
Mark John Bishop (University of London)
Tim Blackwell (University of London)

Detection of Continuous, Smooth and Thin Edges in Noisy Images Using Constrained Particle Swarm Optimisation (Page 45)
Mahdi Setayesh (Victoria University of Wellington)
Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington)
Mark Johnston (Victoria University of Wellington)

Selection Strategies for Initial Positions and Initial Velocities in Multi-Optima Particle Swarms (Page 53)
Stephen Chen (York University)
James Montgomery (Swinburne University)

Diversity Preservation Using Excited Particle Swarm Optimisation (Page 61)
Shannon S. Pace (Swinburne University of Technology)
Clinton J. Woodward (Swinburne University of Technology)

A Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimizer Based on Decomposition (Page 69)
Saúl Zapotecas Martínez (CINVESTAV-IPN)
Carlos A. Coello Coello (CINVESTAV-IPN)

Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimisation Based on History Information Sharing (Page 77)
Wenlong Fu (Victoria University of Wellington)
Mark Johnston (Victoria University of Wellington)
Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington)

PSO Based Motion Deblurring for Single Image (Page 85)
Chunhe Song (Northeastern University)
Hai Zhao (Northeastern University)
Wei Jing (Northeastern University)
Hongbo Zhu (Northeastern University)

Bonding as a Swarm: Applying Bee Nest-Site Selection Behaviour to Protein Docking (Page 93)
Konrad Diwold (Universität Leipzig)
Daniel Himmelbach (Universität Leipzig)
René Meier (Universität Leipzig)
Carsten Baldauf (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)
Martin Middendorf (Universität Leipzig)

A Honey Bees Mating Optimization Algorithm for the Open Vehicle Routing Problem (Page 101)
Yannis Marinakis (Technical University of Crete)
Magdalene Marinaki (Technical University of Crete)

Opposition-Based Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm (Page 109)
Mohammed El-Abd (American University of Kuwait)

Energy-Efficient and Location-Aware Ant Colony Based Routing Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks (Page 117)
Christian Domínguez-Medina (Instituto Politécnico Nacional)
Nareli Cruz-Cortés (Instituto Politécnico Nacional)

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)

Parallel Exploitation in Estimated Basins of Attraction: A New Derivative-Free Optimization Algorithm (Page 133)
Ying Lin (Sun Yat-sen University)
Jing-Hui Zhong (Sun Yat-sen University)
Jun Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University)

An Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm to Solve the Minimum Cost Network Flow Problem with Concave Cost Functions (Page 139)
Marta S. R. Monteiro (Universidade do Porto)
Dalila B. M. M. Fontes (Universidade do Porto)
Fernando A. C. C. Fontes (Universidade do Porto)

Empirical Computation of the Quasi-Optimal Number of Informants in Particle Swarm Optimization (Page 147)
José García-Nieto (University of Malaga)
Enrique Alba (University of Malaga)

Ant Colony Optimization for Determining the Optimal Dimension and Delays in Phase Space Reconstruction (Page 155)
Wei-neng Chen (Sun Yat-sen University)
Jun Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University)

Car Sequencing with Constraint-Based ACO (Page 163)
Dhananjay Thiruvady (Monash University)
Bernd Meyer (Monash University)
Andreas Ernst (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)