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

Artificial Life/Robotics/Evolvable Hardware Track Papers

An Algorithm for Distributed On-line, On-board Evolutionary Robotics (Page 171)
Giorgos Karafotias (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Evert Haasdijk (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Agoston Endre Eiben (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Morphological and Environmental Scaffolding Synergize When Evolving Robot Controllers: Artificial Life/Robotics/Evolvable Hardware (Page 179)
Josh C. Bongard (University of Vermont)

Racing to Improve On-line, On-board Evolutionary Robotics (Page 187)
Evert Haasdijk (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Atta-ul-Qayyum Arif (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Agoston Endre Eiben (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Coupled Inverted Pendulums: A Benchmark for Evolving Decentral Controllers in Modular Robotics (Page 195)
Heiko Hamann (Karl-Franzens University Graz)
Thomas Schmickl (Karl-Franzens University Graz)
Karl Crailsheim (Karl-Franzens University Graz)

The Evolution of Optimal Foraging Strategies in Populations of Digital Organisms (Page 203)
Jacob Charles Walker (Michigan State University)

Evolving a Diversity of Virtual Creatures Through Novelty Search and Local Competition (Page 211)
Joel Lehman (University of Central Florida)
Kenneth O. Stanley (University of Central Florida)

Rapid Host-Parasite Coevolution Drives the Production and Maintenance of Diversity in Digital Organisms (Page 219)
Luis Zaman (Michigan State University)
Suhas Devangam (Michigan State University)
Charles Ofria (Michigan Sate University)

Modeling the Evolutionary Dynamics of Plasmids in Spatial Populations (Page 227)
Brian D. Connelly (Michigan State University)
Luis Zaman (Michigan State University)
Philip K. McKinley (Michigan State University)
Charles Ofria (Michigan State University)

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)

How to Promote Generalisation in Evolutionary Robotics: The ProGAb Approach (Page 259)
Tony Pinville (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Sylvain Koos (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Jean-Baptiste Mouret (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Stéphane Doncieux (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)

Why and How to Measure Exploration in Behavioral Space (Page 267)
Charles Ollion (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Stéphane Doncieux (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)

Agent Fitness Functions for Evolving Coordinated Sensor Networks (Page 275)
Christian Roth (HS Offenburg)
Matt Knudson (Carnegie Mellon University)
Kagan Tumer (Oregon State University)