Best Paper Winners (and Nominees)



Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence - ACO+SI



Robustness of Ant Colony Optimization to Noise

Friedrich, Kötzing, Krejca, Sutton



Nominees:

The Impact of Centrality on Individual and Collective Performance in Social Problem-Solving Systems

Araujo, Grando, Lamb, Noble

An Ant Colony Optimization Based Memetic Algorithm for the Dynamic Travelling Salesman Problem

Mavrovouniotis, Müller, Yang



Artificial Life, Robotics, and Evolvable Hardware - ALIFE + Generative and Developmental Systems - GDS



Innovation Engines: Automated Creativity and Improved Stochastic Optimization via Deep Learning

Nguyen, Yosinski, Clune



Nominee:

Novelty-based evolutionary design of morphing underwater robots

Corucci, Calisti, Hauser, Laschi



Biological and Biomedical Applications (BIO) +Digital Entertainment and Arts - DETA + Parallel Evolutionary Systems - PES



Solving Interleaved and Blended Sequential Decision-Making Problems through Modular Neuroevolution

Schrum, Miikkulainen



Nominees:

Evolutionary optimization of cancer treatments in a cancer stem cell context

Monteagudo, Santos Injection, Saturation and Feedback in Meta-Heuristic Interactions

Nowak, Izo, Hennes

Continuous Optimization - Evolution Strategies and Evolutionary Programming (CO)

On Lagrangian Constraint Handling for the (1+1)-ES

Arnold, Porter



Nominee:

Towards an Analysis of Self-Adaptive Evolution Strategies on the Noisy Ellipsoid Model: Progress Rate and Self-Adaptation Response

Melkozerov, Beyer



Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDA)+ THEORY

Improved Runtime Bounds for the (1+1) EA on Random 3-CNF Formulas Based on Fitness-Distance Correlation

Doerr, Neumann, Sutton



Nominee:

Kernels of Mallows Models for Solving Permutation-based Problems

Ceberio, Mendiburu, Lozano



Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics (ECOM)

Global vs Local Search on Multi-objective NK-landscapes: Contrasting the Impact of Problem Features

Daolio, Liefooghe, Verel, Aguirre, Tanaka



Nominees:

Tunnelling Crossover Networks

Ochoa, Chicano, Tinós, Whitley A Sequence-based Selection Hyper-heuristic Utilising a Hidden Markov Model

Kheiri, Keedwel



Evolutionary Machine Learning -EML

Subspace clustering using evolvable genome structure

Peignier, Rigotti, Beslon



Nominee:

Simpler is Better: a Novel Genetic Algorithm to Induce Compact Multi-label Chain Classifiers

Gonçalves, Plastino, Freitas



Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization - EMO

Greedy Hypervolume Subset Selection in the Three-Objective Case

Guerreiro, Fonseca, Paquete



Nominees:

Obtaining optimal Pareto front approximations using scalarized preference information

Braun, Shukla, Schmeck

Benchmarking Numerical Multiobjective Optimizers Revisited

Brockhoff, Hansen, Tran

An Experimental Investigation of Variation Operators in Reference-Point Based Many-Objective Optimization

Yuan, Xu, Wang



Genetic Algorithms - GA

Mk Landscapes, NK Landscapes and MAX-kSAT: A proof that the only challenging problems are deceptive.

Whitley



Nominees:

Evolutionary Bilevel Optimization for Complex Control Tasks

Liang, Miikkulainen

Gray-Box Optimization using the Parameter-less Population Pyramid

Goldman, Punch

Genetic Programming - GP

Memetic Semantic Genetic Programming

Ffrancon, Schoenauer

Nominees:

An Efficient Structural Diversity Technique for Genetic Programming

Burks, Punch Genetic Programming with Epigenetic Local Search

La Cava, Helmuth, Spector, Danai

Real World Applications - RWA

Exploiting Linkage Information and Problem-Specific Knowledge in Evolutionary Distribution Network Expansion Planning

Luong, La Poutré, Bosman



Nominees:

Selecting Best Investment Opportunities from Stock Portfolios Optimized by a Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm

Michalak

Evolving Solutions to TSP Variants for Active Space Debris Removal

Izzo, Getzner, Hennes, Simões



Search-Based Software Engineering and Self-* Search (SBSE-SS)

Random or GA Search for OO Test Suite Generation? Actually, Random Is Usually Good Enough

Shamshiri, Rojas, Fraser, McMinn



Nominee:

Extracting Variability-Safe Feature Models from Source Code Dependencies in System Variants

Assunção, Lopez-Herrejon, Linsbauer, Vergilio, Egyed

Best Paper Award nominations



Accepted Papers



Statistics:



Track #

Submissions #

Papers %

Papers #

Posters %

Posters %

Papers

+Posters Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence 41 12 29 7 17 46 Artificial Immune Systems and Artificial Chemistries 9 4 44 2 22 67 Artificial Life/Robotics/Evolvable Hardware 26 10 38 4 15 54 Biological and Biomedical Applications 8 4 50 0 0 50 Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts 13 5 38 2 15 54 Estimation of Distribution Algorithms 11 5 45 3 27 73 Continuous Optimization 39 10 26 6 15 41 Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics 44 18 41 7 16 57 Evolutionary Machine Learning 31 7 23 8 26 48 Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization 61 24 39 10 16 56 Generative and Developmental Systems 7 5 71 0 0 71 Genetic Algorithms 45 17 38 8 18 56 Genetic Programming 45 20 44 8 18 62 Integrative Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 11 3 27 1 9 36 Parallel Evolutionary Systems 9 2 22 3 33 56 Real World Applications 55 16 29 17 31 60 Search-Based Software Engineering and Self-* Search 31 11 35 6 19 55 Theory 19 9 47 3 16 63 Totals 505 182 36 95 19 55



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