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• The cumulative consensus of cognitive agents in scenarios: A framework for evolutionary processes in semantic memory
• Preferential partner selection in evolutionary labor markets: A study in agent-based computational economics
• Subspace pursuit for exploratory modeling
• Complete classes of strategies for the Classical Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
• Evolutionary computing in multi-agent environments: Operators
• Evaluation of a simple host-parasite genetic algorithm
• Testing three paradigms for evolving groups of cooperative, simple agents
• Acquisition of general adaptive features by evolution
• Hybrid interior-lagrangian penalty based evolutionary optimization
• GA-Optimal fitness functions
• Scaling up evolutionary programming algorithms
• Short notes on the schema theorem and the building block hypothesis in genetic algorithms
• A superior evolutionary algorithm for 3-SAT
• Evolvable hardware control for dynamic reconfigurable and adaptive computing
• Evolutionary programming strategies with self-adaptation applied to the design of rotorcraft using parallel processing
• Optimization of thinned phased arrays using evolutionary programming
• Evolutionary domain covering of an inference system for function approximation
• Learning to re-engineer semantic networks using cultural algorithms
• Integration of slicing methods into a Cultural Algorithm in order to assist in large-scale engineering systems design
• Genetic search for object identification
• Fuzzy cultural algorithms with evolutionary programming
• Culturing evolution strategies to support the exploration of novel environments by an intelligent robotic agent
• Skeuomorphs and cultural algorithms
• Sphere operators and their applicability for constrained parameter optimization problems
• Numeric mutation as an improvement to symbolic regression in genetic programming
• Variable-dimensional optimization with evolutionary algorithms using fixed-length representations
• On making problems evolutionarily friendly part 1: Evolving the most convenient representations
• On making problems evolutionarily friendly part 2: Evolving the most convenient coordinate systems within which to pose (and solve) the given problem
• An experimental investigation of self-adaptation in evolutionary programming
• On the application of evolutionary pattern search algorithms
• The schema theorem and the misallocation of trials in the presence of stochastic effects
• On the "Explorative power" of ES/EP-like algorithms
• Resampling and its avoidance in genetic algorithms
• Evolutionary search for minimal elements in partially ordered finite sets
• Tailoring mutation to landscape properties
• A genetic programming methodology for missile countermeasures optimization under uncertainty
• Evolutionary algorithms for vertex cover
• An evolutionary self-learning methodology: Some preliminary results from a case study
• Evolving IIR filters in multipath environments
• Fuzzy partition and input selection by genetic algorithms for designing fuzzy rule-based classification systems
• Evolving nonlinear controllers for backing up a truck-and-trailer using evolutionary programming
• Reconstruction of DNA sequence information from a simulated DNA chip using evolutionary programming
• Using programmatic motifs and genetic programming to classify protein sequences as to cellular location
• Fully automated and rapid flexible docking of inhibitors covalently bound to serine proteases
• Microtubule networks as a medium for adaptive information processing
• Evolve IV: A metabolically-based artificial ecosystem model
• Sex, mate selection, and evolution
• Finding low energy conformations of atomic clusters using evolution strategies
• Estimating the distribution of neural connections in the saccadic system using a biologically plausible learning rule
• Preliminary results
• Evolutionary algorithms combined with deterministic search
• Steady state memetic algorithm for partial shape matching
• A fully characterized test suite for genetic programming
• Genetic algorithms for belief network inference: The role of scaling and niching
• Building software frameworks for evolutionary computation
• Recorded step directional mutation for faster convergence
• The behavior of particles
• Parameter selection in particle swarm optimization
• Evolutionary optimization versus particle swarm optimization: Philosophy and performance differences
• Comparison between genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization
• A hybrid evolutionary learning system for synthesizing neural network pattern recognition systems
• An evolutionary algorithm for designing feedforward neural networks
• Dual network representation applied to the evolution of neural controllers
• What does the landscape of a Hopfield associative memory look like?
• Visualization of evolutionary adaptation in R n
• On the application of cohort-driven operators to continuous optimization problems using evolutionary computation
• Random search versus genetic programming as engines for collective adaptation
• Optimal mutation and crossover rates for a genetic algorithm operating in a dynamic environment
• Local selection
• Asymmetric mutations for stochastic search
• Automated rule extraction for engine health monitoring
• Genetic programming for automatic target classification and recognition in synthetic aperture radar imagery
• Evolving heuristics for planning
• Solving cutting stock problems by evolutionary programming
• An empirical investigation of an evolutionary algorithm's ability to maintain a known good solution
• Evolving integrated low-level behaviors into intelligently interactive simulated forces
• Using offset invariant crossover as a tool for discovering cycle lengths of a periodic function
• Evolving a generalised behaviour: Artificial ant problem revisited
• Co-evolving functions in genetic programming: Dynamic ADF creation using GliB
• Evolving spatially-localized projection filters for SAR automatic target recognition
• Genetic programming in the overlapping generations model: An illustration with the dynamics of the inflation rate.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evolutionary Programming, EP98, held in San Diego, CA, USA, in March 1998. The volume presents 81 revised full papers selected from an overwhelming number of submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on economics, emergence and complex systems; issues and innovations in evolutionary computation; applications; evolution-based approaches to engineering design; examining representations and operators; evolutionary computation theory; evolutionary computation and biological modeling; particle swarm; and combinations of evolutionary and neural computation.

• Preface ;
• PART 1: Evolutionary Theory ;
• Chapter 1: Co-Evolutionary Learning in Strategic Environments ;
• Chapter 2: Using Evolution to Learn User Preferences ;
• Chapter 3: A Parallel Genetic Algorithm for Clustering.

• Chapter 4: Using SIMD Genetic Programming for Fault-Tolerant Trading Strategies
• Chapter 5: An Efficient Coevolutionary Algorithm Based on Merging and Splitting of Species ;
• Chapter 6: Schema Analysis of Genetic Algorithms on Multiplicative Landscape.

• Chapter 7: Evolutionary Learning Strategies for Artificial Life Characters
• Chapter 8: Adaptive Strategy for GA Inspired by Biological Evolution ;
• Chapter 9: The Influence of Stochastic Quality Functions on Evolutionary Search.

Inspired by the Darwinian framework of evolution through natural selection and adaptation, the field of evolutionary computation has been growing very rapidly, and is today involved in many diverse application areas. This book covers the latest advances in the theories, algorithms, and applications of simulated evolution and learning techniques. It provides insights into different evolutionary computation techniques and their applications in domains such as scheduling, control and power, robotics, signal processing, and bioinformatics. The book will be of significant value to all postgraduates, research scientists and practitioners dealing with evolutionary computation or complex real-world problems.This book has been selected for coverage in:* Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)* CC Proceedings - Engineering & Physical Sciences.
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• EvoCOMNET Contributions.- Web Application Security through Gene Expression Programming.- Location Discovery in Wireless Sensor Networks Using a Two-Stage Simulated Annealing.- Wireless Communications for Distributed Navigation in Robot Swarms.- An Evolutionary Algorithm for Survivable Virtual Topology Mapping in Optical WDM Networks.- Extremal Optimization as a Viable Means for Mapping in Grids.- Swarm Intelligence Inspired Multicast Routing: An Ant Colony Optimization Approach.- A Framework for Evolutionary Peer-to-Peer Overlay Schemes.- Multiuser Scheduling in HSDPA with Particle Swarm Optimization.- Efficient Signal Processing and Anomaly Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Peer-to-Peer Optimization in Large Unreliable Networks with Branch-and-Bound and Particle Swarms.- Evolving High-Speed, Easy-to-Understand Network Intrusion Detection Rules with Genetic Programming.- Soft Computing Techniques for Internet Backbone Traffic Anomaly Detection.- Testing Detector Parameterization Using Evolutionary Exploit Generation.- Ant Routing with Distributed Geographical Localization of Knowledge in Ad-Hoc Networks.- Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization for Multiple Destination Routing Problems.- EvoENVIRONMENT Contributions.- Combining Back-Propagation and Genetic Algorithms to Train Neural Networks for Ambient Temperature Modeling in Italy.- Estimating the Concentration of Nitrates in Water Samples Using PSO and VNS Approaches.- Optimal Irrigation Scheduling with Evolutionary Algorithms.- Adaptive Land-Use Management in Dynamic Ecological System.- EvoFIN Contributions.- Evolutionary Money Management.- Prediction of Interday Stock Prices Using Developmental and Linear Genetic Programming.- An Introduction to Natural Computing in Finance.- Evolutionary Approaches for Estimating a Coupled Markov Chain Model for Credit Portfolio Risk Management.- Knowledge Patterns in Evolutionary Decision Support Systems for Financial Time Series Analysis.- Predicting Turning Points in Financial Markets with Fuzzy-Evolutionary and Neuro-Evolutionary Modeling.- Comparison of Multi-agent Co-operative Co-evolutionary and Evolutionary Algorithms for Multi-objective Portfolio Optimization.- Dynamic High Frequency Trading: A Neuro-Evolutionary Approach.- EvoGAMES Contributions.- Decay of Invincible Clusters of Cooperators in the Evolutionary Prisoner's Dilemma Game.- Evolutionary Equilibria Detection in Non-cooperative Games.- Coevolution of Competing Agent Species in a Game-Like Environment.- Simulation Minus One Makes a Game.- Evolving Simple Art-Based Games.- Swarming for Games: Immersion in Complex Systems.- Fitness Diversity Parallel Evolution Algorithms in the Turtle Race Game.- Evolving Strategies for Non-player Characters in Unsteady Environments.- Grid Coevolution for Adaptive Simulations: Application to the Building of Opening Books in the Game of Go.- Evolving Teams of Cooperating Agents for Real-Time Strategy Game.- EvoHOT Contributions.- Design Optimization of Radio Frequency Discrete Tuning Varactors.- An Evolutionary Path Planner for Multiple Robot Arms.- Evolutionary Optimization of Number of Gates in PLA Circuits Implemented in VLSI Circuits.- Particle Swarm Optimisation as a Hardware-Oriented Meta-heuristic for Image Analysis.- EvoIASP Contributions.- A Novel GP Approach to Synthesize Vegetation Indices for Soil Erosion Assessment.- Flies Open a Door to SLAM.- Genetic Image Network for Image Classification.- Multiple Network CGP for the Classification of Mammograms.- Evolving Local Descriptor Operators through Genetic Programming.- Evolutionary Optimization for Plasmon-Assisted Lithography.- An Improved Multi-objective Technique for Fuzzy Clustering with Application to IRS Image Segmentation.- EvoINTERACTION Contributions.- Interactive Evolutionary Evaluation through Spatial Partitioning of Fitness Zones.- Fractal Evolver: Interactive Evolutionary Design of Fractals with Grid Computing.- Humorized Computational Intelligence towards User-Adapted Systems with a Sense of Humor.- Innovative Chance Discovery - Extracting Customers' Innovative Concept.- EvoMUSART Contributions.- Evolving Approximate Image Filters.- On the Role of Temporary Storage in Interactive Evolution.- Habitat: Engineering in a Simulated Audible Ecosystem.- The Evolution of Evolutionary Software: Intelligent Rhythm Generation in Kinetic Engine.- Filterscape: Energy Recycling in a Creative Ecosystem.- Evolved Ricochet Compositions.- Life's What You Make: Niche Construction and Evolutionary Art.- Global Expectation-Violation as Fitness Function in Evolutionary Composition.- Composing Using Heterogeneous Cellular Automata.- On the Socialization of Evolutionary Art.- An Evolutionary Music Composer Algorithm for Bass Harmonization.- Generation of Pop-Rock Chord Sequences Using Genetic Algorithms and Variable Neighborhood Search.- Elevated Pitch: Automated Grammatical Evolution of Short Compositions.- A GA-Based Control Strategy to Create Music with a Chaotic System.- Teaching Evolutionary Design Systems by Extending "Context Free".- Artificial Nature: Immersive World Making.- Evolving Indirectly Represented Melodies with Corpus-Based Fitness Evaluation.- Hearing Thinking.- EvoNUM Contributions.- Memetic Variation Local Search vs. Life-Time Learning in Electrical Impedance Tomography.- Estimating HMM Parameters Using Particle Swarm Optimisation.- Modeling Pheromone Dispensers Using Genetic Programming.- NK Landscapes Difficulty and Negative Slope Coefficient: How Sampling Influences the Results.- On the Parallel Speed-Up of Estimation of Multivariate Normal Algorithm and Evolution Strategies.- Adaptability of Algorithms for Real-Valued Optimization.- A Stigmergy-Based Algorithm for Continuous Optimization Tested on Real-Life-Like Environment.- Stochastic Local Search Techniques with Unimodal Continuous Distributions: A Survey.- Evolutionary Optimization Guided by Entropy-Based Discretization.- EvoSTOC Contributions.- The Influence of Population and Memory Sizes on the Evolutionary Algorithm's Performance for Dynamic Environments.- Differential Evolution with Noise Analyzer.- An Immune System Based Genetic Algorithm Using Permutation-Based Dualism for Dynamic Traveling Salesman Problems.- Dynamic Time-Linkage Problems Revisited.- The Dynamic Knapsack Problem Revisited: A New Benchmark Problem for Dynamic Combinatorial Optimisation.- Impact of Frequency and Severity on Non-Stationary Optimization Problems.- A Critical Look at Dynamic Multi-dimensional Knapsack Problem Generation.- EvoTRANSLOG Contributions.- Evolutionary Freight Transportation Planning.- An Effective Evolutionary Algorithm for the Cumulative Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem.- A Corridor Method-Based Algorithm for the Pre-marshalling Problem.- Comparison of Metaheuristic Approaches for Multi-objective Simulation-Based Optimization in Supply Chain Inventory Management.- Heuristic Algorithm for Coordination in Public Transport under Disruptions.- Optimal Co-evolutionary Strategies for the Competitive Maritime Network Design Problem.
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The year 2009 celebrates the bicentenary of Darwin's birth and the 150th - niversary of the publication of his seminal work, On the Origin of Species.If this makes 2009 a special year for the research community working in biology and evolution, the ?eld of evolutionary computation (EC) also shares the same excitement. EC techniques are e?cient, nature-inspired planning and optimi- tion methods based on the principles of natural evolution and genetics. Due to their e?ciency and simple underlying principles, these methods can be used in the context of problem solving, optimization, and machine learning. A large and ever-increasing number of researchers and professionals make use of EC te- niques in various application domains. ThisvolumepresentsacarefulselectionofrelevantECapplicationscombi ned with a thorough examination of the techniques used in EC. The papers in the volume illustrate the current state of the art in the application of EC and can help and inspire researchers and professionals to develop e?cient EC methods for design and problem solving.
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• Sculpture Inspired Musical Composition, One Possible Approach.- Network Bending: Expressive Manipulation of Deep Generative Models.- SyVMO: Synchronous Variable Markov Oracle for Modeling and Predicting Multi-Part Musical Structures.- Identification of Pure Painting Pigment Using Machine Learning Algorithms.- Evolving Neural Style Transfer Blends.- Evolving Image Enhancement Pipelines.- Genre Recognition from Symbolic Music with CNNs.- Axial Generation: A Concretism-Inspired Method for Synthesizing Highly Varied Artworks.- Interactive, Efficient and Creative Image Generation Using Compositional Pattern-Producing Networks.- Aesthetic Evaluation of Cellular Automata Configurations Using Spatial Complexity and Kolmogorov Complexity.- Auralization of Three-Dimensional Cellular Automata.- Chord Embeddings: Analyzing What They Capture and Their Role for Next Chord Prediction and Artist Attribute Prediction.- Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network, via Transfer Learning, for Traditional Scottish Music Generation.- The Enigma of Complexity.- SerumRNN: Step by Step Audio VST Effect Programming.- Parameter Tuning for Wavelet-Based Sound Event Detection Using Neural Networks.- Raga Recognition in Indian Classical Music Using Deep Learning.- The Simulated Emergence of Chord Function.- Incremental Evolution of Stylized Images.- Dissecting Neural Networks Filter Responses for Artistic Style Transfer.- A Fusion of Deep and Shallow Learning to Predict Genres Based on Instrument and Timbre Features.- A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Approach to Identify Relevant Audio Features for Music Segmentation.- Exploring the Effect of Sampling Strategy on Movement Generation with Generative Neural Networks.- "A Good Algorithm Does Not Steal - It Imitates": The Originality Report as a Means of Measuring when a Music Generation Algorithm Copies too Much.- From Music to Image - A Computational Creativity Approach.- "What is human?" A Turing Test for Artistic Creativity.- Mixed-Initiative Level Design with RL Brush.- Creating a Digital Mirror of Creative Practice.- An Application for Evolutionary Music Composition Using Autoencoders.- A Swarm Grammar-Based Approach to Virtual World Generation.- Co-Creative Drawing with One-Shot Generative Models.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2021, held as part of Evo* 2021, as Virtual Event, in April 2021, co-located with the Evo* 2021 events, EvoCOP, EvoApplications, and EuroGP. The 24 revised full papers and 7 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. They cover a wide range of topics and application areas, including generative approaches to music and visual art, deep learning, and architecture.
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• Alife art
• Game theory
• Evolution
• Complex systems
• Biological systems
• Social modelling
• Swarm intelligence
• Heuristics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Australian Conference on Artificial Life, ACAL 2009, held in Melbourne, Australia, in December 2009. The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. "Research in Alife" covers the main areas of biological behaviour as a metaphor for computational models, computational models that reproduce/duplicate a biological behaviour, and computational models to solve biological problems. Thus, "Alife" features analyses and understanding of life and nature and helps modeling biological systems or solving biological problems. The papers are organized in topical sections on alife art, game theory, evolution, complex systems, biological systems, social modelling, swarm intelligence, and heuristics.
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• Intro
• Preface
• Organization
• Contents
• Long Talks
• SonOpt: Sonifying Bi-objective Population-Based Optimization Algorithms
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Related Work
• 3 Methodology and System Overview
• 4 Experimental Study
• 4.1 Experimental Setup
• 4.2 Experimental Analysis
• 5 Conclusion and Future Work
• References
• A Systematic Evaluation of GPT-2-Based Music Generation
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Background
• 2.1 GPT-2 Models
• 2.2 Representing Music Data for GPT-2 Input
• 2.3 Statistical Analysis of Generative Music Models
• 3 Musical Metrics
• 4 Dataset Curation

• 5 Evaluating Generative Model Output
• 5.1 Varying the Training Level
• 5.2 Varying the Training Corpus
• 6 Web Application
• 7 Conclusions and Future Work
• References
• Expressive Aliens
• Laban Effort Factors for Non-anthropomorphic Morphologies
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Background
• 2.1 Movement Qualities
• 2.2 Motion Synthesis
• 2.3 Anthropomorphic versus Non-anthropomorphic Characters
• 2.4 Physical Validity versus Expressivity
• 3 Implementation
• 3.1 Morphologies
• 3.2 SAC Algorithm
• 3.3 Observation Vector
• 3.4 Rewards
• 4 Training
• 5 Results
• 6 Discussion

• 7 Conclusion and Outlook
• References
• Painting with Evolutionary Algorithms
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Rearranging Brush Strokes
• 3 Algorithms
• 4 Experiment and Results
• 5 Extrapolation
• 6 Some Final Remarks
• References
• Evolutionary Construction of Stories that Combine Several Plot Lines
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Related Work
• 2.1 Plot Line Combination
• 2.2 Computational Metrics for Stories
• 2.3 Evolutionary Construction of Narratives
• 3 An Evolutionary Multiplot Story Composer
• 3.1 The Knowledge Resources
• 3.2 Character Fusion and Discourse Planning

• 3.3 Representing Multiplot Stories for Evolutionary Construction
• 3.4 Constructing an Initial Population
• 3.5 Evolutionary Operators
• 3.6 Fitness Functions
• 4 Discussion
• 4.1 Results
• 4.2 Relation with Previous Work
• 5 Conclusions
• References
• Fashion Style Generation: Evolutionary Search with Gaussian Mixture Models in the Latent Space
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Related Work
• 2.1 GANs
• 2.2 Fashion Styles
• 2.3 Evolutionary Search of GANs' Latent Space
• 3 Dataset
• 4 Model
• 4.1 Generative Model
• 4.2 Style Model
• 4.3 Evolutionary Search
• 5 Results
• 6 Discussion

• 7 Conclusion and Future Work
• References
• Classification of Guitar Effects and Extraction of Their Parameter Settings from Instrument Mixes Using Convolutional Neural Networks
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Method and Materials
• 2.1 Dataset for Guitar Effect Parameter Extraction
• 2.2 Dataset for Guitar Effect Classification
• 2.3 Time-Frequency Representations
• 2.4 Convolutional Neural Networks
• 2.5 Training and Evaluation
• 2.6 Baseline
• 2.7 Robustness Analysis
• 3 Results
• 3.1 Effect Classification
• 3.2 Effect Parameter Extraction
• 3.3 Robustness to Noise and Pitch Shifts

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2022, held as part of Evo* 2022, in April 2022, co-located with the Evo* 2022 events, EvoCOP, EvoApplications, and EuroGP. The 20 full papers and 6 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. They cover a wide range of topics and application areas, including generative approaches to music and visual art, deep learning, and architecture.
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• Agents and Complex Systems.- Data Mining and Its Applications.- Evolutionary Algorithms and Optimization.- Intelligent Systems and their Applications.- Nature Inspired Creative Computing.- Smart Workspace and Image Processing.
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This PALO volume constitutes the Proceedings of the 19th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (IES 2015), held in Bangkok, Thailand, November 22-25, 2015. The IES series of conference is an annual event that was initiated back in 1997 in Canberra, Australia. IES aims to bring together researchers from countries of the Asian Pacific Rim, in the fields of intelligent systems and evolutionary computation, to exchange ideas, present recent results and discuss possible collaborations. Researchers beyond Asian Pacific Rim countries are also welcome and encouraged to participate. The theme for IES 2015 is "Transforming Big Data into Knowledge and Technological Breakthroughs". The host organization for IES 2015 is the School of Information Technology (SIT), King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), and it is technically sponsored by the International Neural Network Society (INNS). IES 2015 is collocated with three other conferences; namely, The 6th International Conference on Computational Systems-Biology and Bioinformatics 2015 (CSBio 2015), The 7th International Conference on Advances in Information Technology 2015 (IAIT 2015) and The 10th International Conference on e-Business 2015 (iNCEB 2015), as a major part of series of events to celebrate the SIT 20th anniversary and the KMUTT 55th anniversary.
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• A Novel Ant Colony Optimization Strategy for the Quantum Circuit Compilation Problem.- Hybridization of Racing Methods with Evolutionary Operators for Simulation Optimization of Traffic Lights Programs.- Decomposition-based Multi-objective Landscape Features and Automated Algorithm Selection.- MATE: A Model-Based Algorithm Tuning Engine.- An Improvement Heuristic Based on Variable Neighborhood Search for a Dynamic Orienteering Problem.- Runtime Analysis of the (mu+1)-EA on the Dynamic BinVal Function.- Tabu-Driven Quantum Neighborhood Samplers.- On Hybrid Heuristics for Steiner Trees on the Plane with Obstacles.- Flowshop NEH-Based Heuristic Recommendation.- Stagnation Detection with Randomized Local Search.- An Artificial Immune System for Black Box Test Case Selection.- Symmetry Breaking for Voting Mechanisms.- A Heuristic Algorithm for School Bus Routing with Bus Stop Selection.- Hybrid Heuristic and Metaheuristic for Solving Electric Vehicle Charging Scheduling Problem.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2021, held as part of Evo*2021, as Virtual Event, in April 2021, co-located with the Evo*2021 events: EvoMUSART, EvoApplications, and EuroGP. The 14 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They cover a wide spectrum of topics, ranging from the foundations of evolutionary algorithms and other search heuristics to their accurate design and application to combinatorial optimization problems. Fundamental and methodological aspects deal with runtime analysis, the structural properties of fitness landscapes, the study of core components of metaheuristics, the clever design of their search principles, and their careful selection and configuration. Applications cover problem domains such as scheduling, routing, search-based software engineering and general graph problems. The range of topics covered in this volume reflects the current state of research in the fields of evolutionary computation and combinatorial optimization.
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• Optimizing Prices and Periods in Time-of-use Electricity Tariff Design Using Bilevel Programming.- An Algebraic Approach for the Search Space of Permutations with Repetition.- A Comparison of Genetic Representations for Multi-Objective Shortest Path Problems on Multigraphs.- The Univariate Marginal Distribution Algorithm Copes well with Deception and Epistasis.- A Beam Search Approach to the Traveling Tournament Problem.- Cooperative Parallel SAT Local Search with Path Relinking.- Dynamic Compartmental Models for Large Multi-Objective Landscapes and Performance Estimation.- Fitness Landscape Analysis of Automated Machine Learning Search Spaces.- On the Combined Impact of Population Size and Sub-problem Selection in MOEA/D.- A Grouping Genetic Algorithm for Multi Depot Pickup and Delivery Problems with Time Windows and Heterogeneous Vehicle Fleets.- MILPIBEA: Algorithm for Multi-Objective Features Selection in (Evolving) Software Product Lines.- A Group Genetic Algorithm for Resource Allocation in Container-Based Clouds.- The Local Optima Level in Chemotherapy Schedule Optimisation.- Genetic Programming with Adaptive Search Based on the Frequency of Features for Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2020, held as part of Evo*2020, in Seville, Spain, in April 2020, co-located with the Evo*2020 events EuroGP, EvoMUSART and EvoApplications. The 14 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers cover a wide spectrum of topics, ranging from the foundations of evolutionary computation algorithms and other search heuristics, to their accurate design and application to combinatorial optimization problems.
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• Theory.- Extremal Optimization Dynamics in Neutral Landscapes: The Royal Road Case.- Improving the Scalability of EA Techniques: A Case Study in Clustering.- Ant Colony Optimization.- MC-ANT: A Multi-Colony Ant Algorithm.- Applications.- Artificial Evolution for 3D PET Reconstruction.- A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm/Variable Neighborhood Search Approach to Maximizing Residual Bandwidth of Links for Route Planning.- Parallelization of an Evolutionary Algorithm on a Platform with Multi-core Processors.- On the Difficulty of Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks: A Study of the Fitness Landscape Generated by Relative Squared Error.- Combinatorial Optimization.- Memetic Algorithms for Constructing Binary Covering Arrays of Strength Three.- A Priori Knowledge Integration in Evolutionary Optimization.- Robotics.- On-Line, On-Board Evolution of Robot Controllers.- The Transfer of Evolved Artificial Immune System Behaviours between Small and Large Scale Robotic Platforms.- Multi-objective Optimization.- An Analysis of Algorithmic Components for Multiobjective Ant Colony Optimization: A Case Study on the Biobjective TSP.- Alternative Fitness Assignment Methods for Many-Objective Optimization Problems.- Genetic Programming.- Evolving Efficient List Search Algorithms.- Semantic Similarity Based Crossover in GP: The Case for Real-Valued Function Regression.- Genetic-Programming Based Prediction of Data Compression Saving.- Machine Learning.- On the Characteristics of Sequential Decision Problems and Their Impact on Evolutionary Computation and Reinforcement Learning.
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This LNCS volume contains the best papers presented at the 9th Conference on 1 Arti?cial Evolution, EA 2009, held in Strasbourg (France). Previous EA events took place in Tours (2007, LNCS 4926), Lille (2005, LNCS 3871), Marseille (2003, LNCS 2936), Le Creusot (2001, LNCS 2310), Dunkerque (1999, LNCS 1829), Nimes (1997, LNCS 1363), Brest (1995, LNCS 1063) and Toulouse (1994, LNCS 1063). For this ninth edition, authors were invited to present their originalwork r- evantto arti?cialevolution, including, butnotlimitedto:evolutionarycompu- tion, evolutionaryoptimization, co-evolution, arti?ciallife, populationdynamics, theory, algorithmicsand modeling, implementations, application of evolutionary paradigmstotherealworld(industry, biosciences, ...), otherbiologically-inspired paradigms (swarm, arti?cial ants, arti?cial immune systems, ...), memetic al- rithms, multi-objective optimization, constraint handling, parallel algorithms, dynamic optimization, machine learning and hybridization with other soft c- puting techniques. Submitted papers were reviewed by at least four members of the Inter- tional ProgramCommittee, which selected 23 papers to be presented during the conference out of 43 submissions. However, only 17 papers were included in the present volume, resulting in a 39.5% acceptance rate. We would like to thank the members of the Program Committee for their conscientious work, the authors for their greatly appreciated contributions, but also the members of the Organizing Committee who, once more, managed to put together a really enjoyable conference in Strasbourg. Finally, ?nancial and material support coming from ENSPS, Universit'ede Strasbourg, CNRS, R' egion Alsace and the EA association contributed to the success of the conference and helped to keep registration fees very low.
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• A New Local Search Algorithm for the DNA Fragment Assembly Problem.- A Hybrid Immune-Based System for the Protein Folding Problem.- A Genetic Algorithm for the Resource Renting Problem with Minimum and Maximum Time Lags.- A Probabilistic Beam Search Approach to the Shortest Common Supersequence Problem.- Genetic Algorithms for Word Problems in Partially Commutative Groups.- A GRASP and Branch-and-Bound Metaheuristic for the Job-Shop Scheduling.- Reducing the Size of Traveling Salesman Problem Instances by Fixing Edges.- Iterated k-Opt Local Search for the Maximum Clique Problem.- Accelerating Local Search in a Memetic Algorithm for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem.- Evolutionary Algorithms for Real-World Instances of the Automatic Frequency Planning Problem in GSM Networks.- A New Metaheuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Split Demands.- Generation of Tree Decompositions by Iterated Local Search.- Edge Assembly Crossover for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem.- Tackling the Container Loading Problem: A Hybrid Approach Based on Integer Linear Programming and Genetic Algorithms.- A Population-Based Local Search for Solving a Bi-objective Vehicle Routing Problem.- Combining Lagrangian Decomposition with an Evolutionary Algorithm for the Knapsack Constrained Maximum Spanning Tree Problem.- Exact/Heuristic Hybrids Using rVNS and Hyperheuristics for Workforce Scheduling.- An Analysis of Problem Difficulty for a Class of Optimisation Heuristics.- A New Grouping Genetic Algorithm for the Quadratic Multiple Knapsack Problem.- A Hybrid Method for Solving Large-Scale Supply Chain Problems.- Crossover Operators for the Car Sequencing Problem.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2007, held in Valencia, Spain in April 2007. The 21 revised full papers cover evolutionary algorithms as well as various other metaheuristics, like scatter search, tabu search, memetic algorithms, variable neighborhood search, ant colony optimization, and particle swarm optimization algorithms.
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• Invited Talk 1.- Descriptive Complexity and Model Checking.- Session 1(a).- Approximation Algorithms with Bounded Performance Guarantees for the Clustered Traveling Salesman Problem.- A Hamiltonian Approach to the Assignment of Non-reusable Frequencies.- Session 1(b).- Deadlock Sensitive Types for Lambda Calculus with Resources.- On encoding p? in m?.- Session 2(a).- Improved Methods for Approximating Node Weighted Steiner Trees and Connected Dominating Sets.- Red-Black Prefetching: An Approximation Algorithm for Parallel Disk Scheduling.- Session 2(b).- A Synchronous Semantics of Higher-Order Processes for Modeling Reconfigurable Reactive Systems.- Testing Theories for Asynchronous Languages.- Invited Talk 2.- Alternative Computational Models: A Comparison of Biomolecular and Quantum Computation.- Session 3.- Optimal Regular Tree Pattern Matching Using Pushdown Automata.- Locating Matches of Tree Patterns in Forests.- Session 4.- Benefits of Tree Transducers for Optimizing Functional Programs.- Implementable Failure Detectors in Asynchronous Systems.- Invited Talk 3.- BRICS and Quantum Information Processing.- Session 5(a).- Martingales and Locality in Distributed Computing.- Space Efficient Suffix Trees.- Session 5(b).- Formal Verification of an O.S. Submodule.- Infinite Probabilistic and Nonprobabilistic Testing.- Session 6(a).- On Generating Strong Elimination Orderings of Strongly Chordal Graphs.- A Parallel Approximation Algorithm for Minimum Weight Triangulation.- Session 6(b).- The Power of Reachability Testing for Timed Automata.- Recursive Mean-Value Calculus.- Invited Talk 4.- Efficient Formal Verification of Hierarchical Descriptions.- Invited Talk 5.- Proof Rules for Model Checking Systems with Data.- Session 7.- Partial Order Reductions for Bisimulation Checking.- First-Order-CTL Model Checking.- Session 8(a).- On the Complexity of Counting the Number of Vertices Moved by Graph Automorphisms.- Remarks on Graph Complexity.- Session 8(b).- On the Confluence of Trace Rewriting Systems.- A String-Rewriting Characterization of Muller and Schupp's Context-Free Graphs.- Session 9.- Different Types of Monotonicity for Restarting Automata.- A Kleene Iteration for Parallelism.- Invited Talk 6.- Quantum Computation and Information.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, FSTTCS'98, held in Chennai, India, in December 1998.The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 93 submissions; also included are six invited contributions. The papers deal with theoretical topics ranging from discrete mathematics and algorithmic aspects to software engineering, program semantics and mathematical logic.
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• Evolution of Analog Circuits
• Unconstrained Evolution of Analogue Computational "QR" Circuit with Oscillating Length Representation
• ISCLEs: Importance Sampled Circuit Learning Ensembles for Trustworthy Analog Circuit Topology Synthesis
• Evolution of Digital Circuits
• A Comparison of Evolvable Hardware Architectures for Classification Tasks
• Hardware Acceleration of an Immune Network Inspired Evolutionary Algorithm for Medical Diagnosis
• A Stepwise Dimension Reduction Approach to Evolutionary Design of Relative Large Combinational Logic Circuits
• Hardware-Software Codesign and Platforms for Adaptive Systems
• Evolutionary Graph Models with Dynamic Topologies on the Ubichip
• A Hardware-Software Design Framework for Distributed Cellular Computing
• Hardware/Software Co-synthesis of Distributed Embedded Systems Using Genetic Programming
• Self-Adaptive Networked Entities for Building Pervasive Computing Architectures
• Best Paper Award Competition
• Cellular Automata-Based Development of Combinational and Polymorphic Circuits: A Comparative Study
• Investigating the Suitability of FPAAs for Evolved Hardware Spiking Neural Networks
• The Segmental-Transmission-Line: Its Design and Prototype Evaluation
• On Evolutionary Synthesis of Linear Transforms in FPGA
• Evolutionary Robotics
• Towards Efficient Evolutionary Design of Autonomous Robots
• Indirect Online Evolution
• A Conceptual Framework for Adaptation in Industrial Robotic Systems
• Development
• A Developmental Gene Regulation Network for Constructing Electronic Circuits
• Discovery and Investigation of Inherent Scalability in Developmental Genomes
• Learning General Solutions through Multiple Evaluations during Development
• Real-World Applications
• Evolving MEMS Resonator Designs for Fabrication
• Self-Reconfigurable Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits Architecture Comprising a Field Programmable Analog Array and a General Purpose Genetic Algorithm IP Core
• Evolutionary Networking
• Proposal for LDPC Code Design System Using Multi-Objective Optimization and FPGA-Based Emulation
• Scalability of a Novel Shifting Balance Theory-Based Optimization Algorithm: A Comparative Study on a Cluster-Based Wireless Sensor Network
• Evolutionary Design of Fault Tolerant Collective Communications
• Evolvable Artificial Neural Networks
• A Cellular Structure for Online Routing of Digital Spiking Neuron Axons and Dendrites on FPGAs
• Bio-inspired Event Coded Configurable Analog Circuit Block
• Dynamics of Firing Patterns in Evolvable Hierarchically Organized Neural Networks
• Transistor-Level Circuit Evolution
• Evolving Variability-Tolerant CMOS Designs
• Transistor-Level Evolution of Digital Circuits Using a Special Circuit Simulator
• Extended Posters
• Optimised State Assignment for FSMs Using Quantum Inspired Evolutionary Algorithm
• Evolvable Hardware: A Tool for Reverse Engineering of Biological Systems
• Coevolution of Neuro-developmental Programs That Play Checkers
• Hippocampus-Inspired Spiking Neural Network on FPGA
• Fault-Tolerant Memory Design and Partitioning Issues in Embryonics
• The Input Pattern Order Problem: Evolution of Combinatorial and Sequential Circuits in Hardware
• Neural Development on the Ubichip by Means of Dynamic Routing Mechanisms
• Short Posters
• The Perplexus Programming Framework: Combining Bio-inspiration and Agent-Oriented Programming for the Simulation of Large Scale Complex Systems
• Quantum Bio-inspired Vision Model on System-on-a-Chip (SoC)
• Evolutionary Meta Compilation: Evolving Programs Using Real World Engineering Tools
• Waveguide Synthesis by Genetic Algorithms with Multiple Crossover
• Parallel Grammatical Evolution for Circuit Optimization
• Self-organization of Bio-inspired Integrated Circuits
• Artificial Creativity in Linguistics Using Evolvable Fuzzy Neural Networks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evolvable Systems, ICES 2008, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2008. The 28 revised full papers and 14 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evolution of analog circuits, evolution of digital circuits, hardware-software codesign and platforms for adaptive systems, evolutionary robotics, development, real-world applications, evolutionary networking, evolvable artificial neural networks, and transistor-level circuit evolution.
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• From Feature Selection to Continuous Optimization.- Evolving a Weighted Combination of Text Similarities for Authorship Attribution.- Image Signal Processor Parameter Tuning with Surrogate-assisted Particle Swarm Optimization.- Combinatorial Surrogate-assisted Optimization for Bus Stops Spacing Problem.- Optimization of a Checkers Player Using Neural and Metaheuristic Approaches.- A Novel Outlook on Feature Selection as a Multi-Objective Problem.- Fast Evolutionary Algorithm for Solving Large-scale Multi-objective Problems.- Looking for Energy Efficient Genetic Algorithms.- Evolving Fitness Landscapes with Complementary Fitness Functions.- Bayesian Immigrant Diploid Genetic Algorithm for Dynamic Environments.- Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for a Transportation Problem in Home Health Care with the Consideration of Carbon Emissions.- Selective Vehicle Routing Problem: A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm Approach.- Fixed Jobs Multi-agent Scheduling Problem with Renewable Resources.- A Study of Recombination Operators for the Cyclic Bandwidth Problem.- Automatic Calibration of a Farm Irrigation Model: a Multi-modal Optimization Approach.- A Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm for Offl ine UAV Path Planning.
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, EA 2019, held in Mulhouse, France, in October 2019. The 16 revised papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the field of artificial evolution, such as evolutionary computation, evolutionary optimization, co-evolution, artificial life, population dynamics, theory, algorithmic and modeling, implementations, application of evolutionary paradigms to the real world (industry, biosciences...), other biologically-inspired paradigms (swarm, artificial ants, artificial immune systems, cultural algorithms...), memetic algorithms, multi-objective optimization, constraint handling, parallel algorithms, dynamic optimization, machine learning and hybridization with other soft computing techniques.
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• EvoCOMNET Contributions.- Detection of DDoS Attacks via an Artificial Immune System-Inspired Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm.- Performance Evaluation of an Artificial Neural Network-Based Adaptive Antenna Array System.- Automatic Parameter Tuning with Metaheuristics of the AODV Routing Protocol for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks.- WiMAX Network Planning Using Adaptive-Population-Size Genetic Algorithm.- Markov Chain Models for Genetic Algorithm Based Topology Control in MANETs.- Particle Swarm Optimization for Coverage Maximization and Energy Conservation in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Efficient Load Balancing for a Resilient Packet Ring Using Artificial Bee Colony.- TCP Modification Robust to Packet Reordering in Ant Routing Networks.- Solving the Physical Impairment Aware Routing and Wavelength Assignment Problem in Optical WDM Networks Using a Tabu Search Based Hyper-Heuristic Approach.- A Generalized, Location-Based Model of Connections in Ad-Hoc Networks Improving the Performance of Ant Routing.- Using Code Bloat to Obfuscate Evolved Network Traffic.- ABC Supported Handoff Decision Scheme Based on Population Migration.- EvoENVIRONMENT Contributions.- A Hyper-Heuristic Approach for the Unit Commitment Problem.- Application of Genetic Programming Classification in an Industrial Process Resulting in Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions.- Influence of Topology and Payload on CO2 Optimised Vehicle Routing.- Start-Up Optimisation of a Combined Cycle Power Plant with Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms.- EvoFIN Contributions.- A Study of Nature-Inspired Methods for Financial Trend Reversal Detection.- Outperforming Buy-and-Hold with Evolved Technical Trading Rules: Daily, Weekly and Monthly Trading.- Evolutionary Multi-stage Financial Scenario Tree Generation.- Evolving Dynamic Trade Execution Strategies Using Grammatical Evolution.- Modesty Is the Best Policy: Automatic Discovery of Viable Forecasting Goals in Financial Data.- Threshold Recurrent Reinforcement Learning Model for Automated Trading.- Active Portfolio Management from a Fuzzy Multi-objective Programming Perspective.- Evolutionary Monte Carlo Based Techniques for First Passage Time Problems in Credit Risk and Other Applications in Finance.- Calibrating the Heston Model with Differential Evolution.- Evolving Trading Rule-Based Policies.- EvoMUSART Contributions.- Evolving Artistic Styles through Visual Dialogues.- Graph-Based Evolution of Visual Languages.- Refinement Techniques for Animated Evolutionary Photomosaics Using Limited Tile Collections.- Generative Art and Evolutionary Refinement.- Aesthetic Learning in an Interactive Evolutionary Art System.- Comparing Aesthetic Measures for Evolutionary Art.- The Problem with Evolutionary Art Is ...- Learning to Dance through Interactive Evolution.- Jive: A Generative, Interactive, Virtual, Evolutionary Music System.- A Neural Network for Bass Functional Harmonization.- Combining Musical Constraints with Markov Transition Probabilities to Improve the Generation of Creative Musical Structures.- Dynamic Musical Orchestration Using Genetic Algorithms and a Spectro-Temporal Description of Musical Instruments.- Evolutionary Sound Synthesis: Rendering Spectrograms from Cellular Automata Histograms.- Sound Agents.- From Evolutionary Composition to Robotic Sonification.- Musical Composer Identification through Probabilistic and Feedforward Neural Networks.- EvoTRANSLOG Contributions.- Using an Evolutionary Algorithm to Discover Low CO2 Tours within a Travelling Salesman Problem.- A Genetic Algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem with Pickup and Delivery Using Depot Removal and Insertion Moves.- Fast Approximation Heuristics for Multi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problems.- Particle Swarm Optimization and an Agent-Based Algorithm for a Problem of Staff Scheduling.- A Math-Heuristic for the Multi-Level Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem with Carryover.
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Evolutionary computation (EC) techniques are e?cient, nature-inspired me- ods based on the principles of natural evolution and genetics. Due to their - ciency and simple underlying principles, these methods can be used for a diverse rangeofactivitiesincludingproblemsolving, optimization, machinelearningand pattern recognition. A large and continuously increasing number of researchers and professionals make use of EC techniques in various application domains. This volume presents a careful selection of relevant EC examples combined with a thorough examination of the techniques used in EC. The papers in the volume illustrate the current state of the art in the application of EC and should help and inspire researchers and professionals to develop e?cient EC methods for design and problem solving. All papers in this book were presented during EvoApplications 2010, which included a range of events on application-oriented aspects of EC. Since 1998, EvoApplications - formerly known as EvoWorkshops - has provided a unique opportunity for EC researchers to meet and discuss application aspects of EC and has been an important link between EC research and its application in a variety of domains. During these 12 years, new events have arisen, some have disappeared, whileothershavematuredtobecomeconferencesoftheirown, such as EuroGP in 2000, EvoCOP in 2004, and EvoBIO in 2007. And from this year, EvoApplications has become a conference as well.
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• EvoCOMPLEX Contributions.- Coevolutionary Dynamics of Interacting Species.- Evolving Individual Behavior in a Multi-agent Traffic Simulator.- On Modeling and Evolutionary Optimization of Nonlinearly Coupled Pedestrian Interactions.- Revising the Trade-off between the Number of Agents and Agent Intelligence.- Sexual Recombination in Self-Organizing Interaction Networks.- Symbiogenesis as a Mechanism for Building Complex Adaptive Systems: A Review.- EvoGAMES Contributions.- Co-evolution of Optimal Agents for the Alternating Offers Bargaining Game.- Fuzzy Nash-Pareto Equilibrium: Concepts and Evolutionary Detection.- An Evolutionary Approach for Solving the Rubik's Cube Incorporating Exact Methods.- Evolution of Artificial Terrains for Video Games Based on Accessibility.- Evolving Behaviour Trees for the Commercial Game DEFCON.- Evolving 3D Buildings for the Prototype Video Game Subversion.- Finding Better Solutions to the Mastermind Puzzle Using Evolutionary Algorithms.- Towards a Generic Framework for Automated Video Game Level Creation.- Search-Based Procedural Content Generation.- Evolution of Grim Trigger in Prisoner Dilemma Game with Partial Imitation.- Evolving a Ms. PacMan Controller Using Grammatical Evolution.- Evolving Bot AI in UnrealTM.- Evolutionary Algorithm for Generation of Entertaining Shinro Logic Puzzles.- Social Learning Algorithms Reaching Nash Equilibrium in Symmetric Cournot Games.- Multiple Overlapping Tiles for Contextual Monte Carlo Tree Search.- EvoIASP Contributions.- A CNN Based Algorithm for the Automated Segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions.- A Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm for Bayesian Networks Learning: An Application to Classifier Combination.- Towards Automated Learning of Object Detectors.- Markerless Multi-view Articulated Pose Estimation Using Adaptive Hierarchical Particle Swarm Optimisation.- Hand Posture Recognition Using Real-Time Artificial Evolution.- Comparing Cellular and Panmictic Genetic Algorithms for Real-Time Object Detection.- Bloat Free Genetic Programming versus Classification Trees for Identification of Burned Areas in Satellite Imagery.- Genetic Algorithms for Training Data and Polynomial Optimization in Colorimetric Characterization of Scanners.- New Genetic Operators in the Fly Algorithm: Application to Medical PET Image Reconstruction.- Chaotic Hybrid Algorithm and Its Application in Circle Detection.- Content-Based Image Retrieval of Skin Lesions by Evolutionary Feature Synthesis.- An Evolutionary Method for Model-Based Automatic Segmentation of Lower Abdomen CT Images for Radiotherapy Planning.- Evolution of Communicating Individuals.- Dynamic Data Clustering Using Stochastic Approximation Driven Multi-Dimensional Particle Swarm Optimization.- Automatic Synthesis of Associative Memories through Genetic Programming: A First Co-evolutionary Approach.- EvoINTELLIGENCE Contributions.- A Comparative Study between Genetic Algorithm and Genetic Programming Based Gait Generation Methods for Quadruped Robots.- Markerless Localization for Blind Users Using Computer Vision and Particle Swarm Optimization.- Particle Swarm Optimization for Feature Selection in Speaker Verification.- Scale- and Rotation-Robust Genetic Programming-Based Corner Detectors.- Self-organized and Evolvable Cognitive Architecture for Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.- EvoNUM Contributions.- Investigating the Local-Meta-Model CMA-ES for Large Population Sizes.- Exploiting Evolution for an Adaptive Drift-Robust Classifier in Chemical Sensing.- Automatically Modeling Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms from Past Executions.- Gaussian Adaptation Revisited - An Entropic View on Covariance Matrix Adaptation.- Parallel Genetic Algorithm on the CUDA Architecture.- A New Selection Ratio for Large Population Sizes.- Multi-Objective Probability Collectives.- Parallel Random Injection Differential Evolution.- Effect of Spatial Locality on an Evolutionary Algorithm for Multimodal Optimization.- A Directed Mutation Operator for Real Coded Genetic Algorithms.- Speedups between x70 and x120 for a Generic Local Search (Memetic) Algorithm on a Single GPGPU Chip.- Advancing Model-Building for Many-Objective Optimization Estimation of Distribution Algorithms.- Estimation Distribution Differential Evolution.- Design of Continuous Controllers Using a Multiobjective Differential Evolution Algorithm with Spherical Pruning.- Parameter Tuning of Evolutionary Algorithms: Generalist vs. Specialist.- EvoSTOC Contributions.- Memory Design for Constrained Dynamic Optimization Problems.- Multi-population Genetic Algorithms with Immigrants Scheme for Dynamic Shortest Path Routing Problems in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Measuring Fitness Degradation in Dynamic Optimization Problems.- Handling Undefined Vectors in Expensive Optimization Problems.- Adaptive Noisy Optimization.- Noise Analysis Compact Genetic Algorithm.
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Evolutionary Computation (EC) techniques are e?cient, nature-inspired me- ods based on the principles of natural evolution and genetics. Due to their - ciency and simple underlying principles, these methods can be used for a diverse rangeofactivitiesincludingproblemsolving, optimization, machinelearningand pattern recognition. A large and continuously increasing number of researchers and professionals make use of EC techniques in various application domains. This volume presents a careful selection of relevant EC examples combined with a thorough examination of the techniques used in EC. The papers in the volume illustrate the current state of the art in the application of EC and should help and inspire researchers and professionals to develop e?cient EC methods for design and problem solving. All papers in this book were presented during EvoApplications 2010, which included a range of events on application-oriented aspects of EC. Since 1998, EvoApplications - formerly known as EvoWorkshops- has provided a unique opportunity for EC researchers to meet and discuss application aspects of EC and has been an important link between EC research and its application in a variety of domains. During these 12 years, new events have arisen, some have disappeared, whileothershavematuredtobecomeconferencesoftheirown, such as EuroGP in 2000, EvoCOP in 2004, and EvoBIO in 2007. And from this year, EvoApplications has become a conference as well.
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• Evolutionary Computation
• Evolutionary Optimization, Co-evolution,
• Artificial Life
• Population Dynamics
• Theory, Algorithmics and Modeling
• Implementations
• Application of Evolutionary Paradigms to the Real World.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, EA 2015, held in Lyon, France, in October 2015. The 18 revised papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The focus of the conference is on following topics: Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary Optimization, Co-evolution, Artificial Life, Population Dynamics, Theory, Algorithmics and Modeling, Implementations, Application of Evolutionary Paradigms to the Real World, Dynamic Optimization, Machine Learning and hybridization with other soft computing techniques.

• Intro; Preface; Organization; Contents; Computer-Aided Musical Orchestration Using an Artificial Immune System; 1 Introduction; 2 Computer-Aided Musical Orchestration (CAMO); 2.1 Overview; 2.2 Sound Database; 2.3 Feature Database; 2.4 Pre-processing; 2.5 Representation; 2.6 Combination Functions; 2.7 Fitness Function; 3 Immune Inspired Musical Orchestration; 3.1 Opt-aiNet: An Artificial Immune System for Optimization; 3.2 Phase Vocoder; 3.3 Graphical Interface; 4 Evaluation; 5 Results and Discussion; 5.1 Subjective Evaluation; 5.2 Objective Evaluation; 6 Conclusions and Perspectives

• 3.2 What Is the Relative Level of Complexity of the Generated Patterns?3.3 How Does the Generated Audio Compare with Tidal?; 3.4 How Does the Fitness of the Population Change?; 4 Conclusion; 4.1 On the Experience of Live Coding with Evolved Patterns; 4.2 On the Need for a Quantitative Evaluation; 4.3 Closing Remarks; References; Towards Adaptive Evolutionary Architecture; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Research Design and Goal; 2 Background; 2.1 Interdisciplinary Scope: Philosophy, Architecture and ALife; 2.2 Interactive Evolution; 3 EvoCurtain: The Evolutionary Window Curtain

• 3.1 Set-Up and Spatial Layout3.2 Genetic Representation; 3.3 Interactive Evolutionary Setup; 4 Experiments; 4.1 Genetic Experimental Parameters; 5 Results; 5.1 Disagreement and Reconciliation; 5.2 Control and Preconceptions; 5.3 Time; 5.4 Interdisciplinary Perspective; 6 Discussion; 7 Conclusion; References; Plecto: A Low-Level Interactive Genetic Algorithm for the Evolution of Audio; 1 Introduction; 2 Background; 2.1 Genetic Algorithms; 2.2 Creative Potential of Lower-Level Audio Engines; 3 A Low-Level Audio Engine; 4 Growing the Population; 5 Searching the Population

• 5.1 Meaningful Representation of the Population5.2 Creating GA Landscapes; 5.3 Descriptive Icons; 5.4 A Navigational Tool for Plecto's Scatterplot Interface; 5.5 Refining Population Search; 6 Conclusion; References; Correlation Between Human Aesthetic Judgement and Spatial Complexity Measure; 1 Introduction; 2 Informational Theories of Aesthetics; 3 Spatial Complexity Measure; 4 Analysis; 5 Conclusions; References; Exploring the Visual Styles of Arcade Game Assets; 1 Introduction; 2 Related Work; 2.1 Procedural Content Generation; 2.2 Constrained Optimization and Constrained Novelty Search

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in March/April 2016, co-located with the Evo*2016 events EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoApplications. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics and application areas, including generative approaches to music, graphics, game content, and narrative; music information retrieval; computational aesthetics; the mechanics of interactive evolutionary computation; and the art theory of evolutionary computation.

• Algorithmic Songwriting with ALYSIA.- On Symmetry, Aesthetics and Quantifying Symmetrical Complexity.- Towards Polyphony Reconstruction Using Multidimensional Multiple Sequence Alignment.- Melody Retrieval and Classification Using Biologically-Inspired Techniques.- Evolved Aesthetic Analogies to Improve Artistic Experience.- Deep Artificial Composer: A Creative Neural Network Model for Automated Melody Generation.- A Kind of Bio-inspired Learning of mUsic stylE.- Using Autonomous Agents to Improvise Music Compositions in Real-time.- Generating Polyphonic Music Using Tied Parallel Networks.- Mixed-initiative Creative Drawing with webIconoscope.- Clustering Agents for the Evolution of Autonomous Musical Fitness.- EvoFashion: Customising Fashion Through Evolution.- A Swarm Environment for Experimental Performance and Improvisation.- Niche Constructing Drawing Robots.- Automated Shape Design by Grammatical Evolution.- Evolutionary Image Transition Using Random Walks.- Evaluation Rules for Evolutionary Generation of Drum Patterns in Jazz Solos.- Assessing Augmented Creativity: Putting a Lovelace Machine for Interactive Title Generation through a Human Creativity Test.- Play It again: Evolved Audio Effects and Synthesizer Programming.- Fashion Design Aid System with Application of Interactive Genetic Algorithms.- Generalization Performance of Western Instrument Recognition Models in Polyphonic Mixtures with Ethnic Samples.- Exploring the Exactitudes Portrait Series with Restricted Boltzmann Machines.- Evolving Mondrian-Style Artworks.- Predicting Expressive Bow Controls for Violin and Viola. .
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoMUSART 2017, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in April 2017, co-located with the Evo*2017 events EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoApplications. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics and application areas, including: generative approaches to music, graphics, game content, and narrative; music information retrieval; computational aesthetics; the mechanics of interactive evolutionary computation; computer-aided design; and the art theory of evolutionary computation. .
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• A Computational Study of Neighborhood Operators for Job-shop Scheduling Problems with Regular Objectives.- A Genetic Algorithm for Multi-Component Optimization Problems: the Case of the Travelling Thief Problem.- A Hybrid Feature Selection Algorithm Based on Large Neighborhood Search.- A Memetic Algorithm to Maximise the Employee Substitutability in Personnel Shift Scheduling.- Construct, Merge, Solve and Adapt versus Large Neighborhood Search for Solving the Multi-Dimensional Knapsack Problem: Which One Works Better When.- Decomposing SAT Instances with Pseudo Backbones.- Efficient Consideration of Soft Time Windows in a Large Neighborhood Search for the Districting and Routing Problem for Security Control.- Estimation of Distribution Algorithms for the Firefighter Problem.- LCS-Based Selective Route Exchange Crossover for the Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows.- Multi-rendezvous Spacecraft Trajectory Optimization with Beam P-ACO.- Optimizing Charging Station Locations for Electric Car-Sharing Systems.- Selection of Auxiliary Objectives Using Landscape Features and Offline Learned Classifier.- Sparse, Continuous Policy Representations for Uniform Online Bin Packing via Regression of Interpolants.- The Weighted Independent Domination Problem: ILP Model and Algorithmic .
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2017, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in April 2017, co-located with the Evo*2017 events EuroGP, EvoMUSART and EvoApplications. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The papers cover both empirical and theoretical studies on a wide range of academic and real-world applications. The methods include evolutionary and memetic algorithms, large neighborhood search, estimation of distribution algorithms, beam search, ant colony optimization, hyper-heuristics and matheuristics. Applications include both traditional domains, such as knapsack problem, vehicle routing, scheduling problems and SAT; and newer domains such as the traveling thief problem, location planning for car-sharing systems and spacecraft trajectory optimization. Papers also study important concepts such as pseudo-backbones, phase transitions in local optima networks, and the analysis of operators. This wide range of topics makes the EvoCOP proceedings an important source for current research trends in combinatorial optimization.
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