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

Evolution Strategies and Evolutionary Programming Track Papers

Noisy Optimization: A Theoretical Strategy Comparison of ES, EGS, SPSA & IF on the Noisy Sphere (Page 813)
Steffen Finck (Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences)
Hans-Georg Beyer (Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences)
Alexander Melkozerov (University of Ulm)

When Parameter Tuning Actually Is Parameter Control (Page 821)
Simon Wessing (Technische Universität Dortmund)
Mike Preuss (Technische Universität Dortmund)
Günter Rudolph (Technische Universität Dortmund)

Exploratory Landscape Analysis (Page 829)
Olaf Mersmann (Technische Universität Dortmund)
Bernd Bischl (Technische Universität Dortmund)
Heike Trautmann (Technische Universität Dortmund)
Mike Preuss (Technische Universität Dortmund)
Claus Weihs (Technische Universität Dortmund)
Günter Rudolph (Technische Universität Dortmund)

Niching Foundations: Basin Identification on Fixed-Property Generated Landscapes (Page 837)
Mike Preuss (Technische Universität Dortmund)
Catalin Stoean (University of Craiova)
Ruxandra Stoean (University of Craiova)

High Dimensions and Heavy Tails for Natural Evolution Strategies (Page 845)
Tom Schaul (University of Lugano)
Tobias Glasmachers (University of Lugano)
Jürgen Schmidhuber (University of Lugano)

Analysis of a Repair Mechanism for the (1,λ)-ES Applied to a Simple Constrained Problem (Page 853)
Dirk V. Arnold (Dalhousie University)

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)

Using the Uncertainty Handling CMA-ES for Finding Robust Optima (Page 877)
Johannes Kruisselbrink (Leiden University)
Edgar Reehuis (Leiden University)
André Deutz (Leiden University)
Thomas Bäck (Leiden University)
Michael Emmerich (Leiden University)

Adaptive Coordinate Descent (Page 885)
Ilya Loshchilov (TAO, INRIA Saclay, Université Paris Sud)
Marc Schoenauer (TAO, INRIA Saclay, Université Paris Sud)
Michèle Sebag (CNRS, LRI UMR 8623, Université Paris Sud)