GECCO '16- Proceedings of the 2016 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference GECCO '16- Proceedings of the 2016 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Full Citation in the ACM Digital Library SESSION: Keynote Talks The Challenges of Natural Algorithms Bernard Chazelle Taming the Complexity Monster or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Hard Problems Holger H. Hoos SESSION: Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence Relaxing Consensus in Distributed Factored Evolutionary Algorithms Stephyn Butcher Shane Strasser Jenna Hoole Benjamin Demeo John Sheppard A Mixed-Attribute Approach in Ant-Miner Classification Rule Discovery Algorithm Ayah Helal Fernando E.B. Otero ACO-inspired Acceleration of Gossip Averaging Andreas Janecek Wilfried N. Gansterer Curvature Flight Path for Particle Swarm Optimisation Cheng Wai Kheng Day Chyi Ku Hui Fuang Ng Mahmoud Khattab Siang Yew Chong The Influence of Heredity Models on Adaptability in Evolutionary Swarms Ruby L.V. Moritz Sanaz Mostaghim Using Mutual Information to Build Dynamic Neighbourhoods for Particle Swarm Optimisation Ángel Arturo Rojas-García Arturo Hernández-Aguirre A New Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm Shane Strasser Rollie Goodman John Sheppard Stephyn Butcher Update Strength in EDAs and ACO: How to Avoid Genetic Drift Dirk Sudholt Carsten Witt Geometric Particle Swarm Optimization for Multi-objective Optimization Using Decomposition Saul Zapotecas-Martinez Alberto Moraglio Hernan E. Aguirre Kiyoshi Tanaka SESSION: Artificial Immune Systems and Biological and Biomedical Applications Artificial Immune Systems can Beat Evolutionary Algorithms in Combinatorial Optimisation Benjamin Doerr Thomas Jansen Christine Zarges A Novel EA-based Memetic Approach for Efficiently Mapping Complex Fitness Landscapes Emmanuel Sapin Kenneth De Jong Amarda Shehu SESSION: Complex Systems (Artificial Life/Robotics/Evolvable Hardware/Generative and Developmental Systems) EvoRBC: Evolutionary Repertoire-based Control for Robots with Arbitrary Locomotion Complexity Miguel Duarte Jorge Gomes Sancho Moura Oliveira Anders Lyhne Christensen Quantifying Deception: A Case Study in the Evolution of Antimicrobial Resistance Margaret J. Eppstein C. Brandon Ogbunugafor Convolution by Evolution: Differentiable Pattern Producing Networks Chrisantha Fernando Dylan Banarse Malcolm Reynolds Frederic Besse David Pfau Max Jaderberg Marc Lanctot Daan Wierstra Evolving Neural Turing Machines for Reward-based Learning Rasmus Boll Greve Emil Juul Jacobsen Sebastian Risi Does Aligning Phenotypic and Genotypic Modularity Improve the Evolution of Neural Networks? Joost Huizinga Jean-Baptiste Mouret Jeff Clune Accelerating the Evolution of Cognitive Behaviors Through Human-Computer Collaboration Mathias Löwe Sebastian Risi Evolvability Search: Directly Selecting for Evolvability in order to Study and Produce It Henok Mengistu Joel Lehman Jeff Clune Learning Behavior Characterizations for Novelty Search Elliot Meyerson Joel Lehman Risto Miikkulainen Neuromodulation Improves the Evolution of Forward Models Mohammad Sadegh Norouzzadeh Jeff Clune Inspiration-Triggered Search: Towards Higher Complexities by Mimicking Creative Processes Milan Rybář Heiko Hamann How do Different Encodings Influence the Performance of the MAP-Elites Algorithm? Danesh Tarapore Jeff Clune Antoine Cully Jean-Baptiste Mouret Identifying Core Functional Networks and Functional Modules within Artificial Neural Networks via Subsets Regression Roby Velez Jeff Clune SESSION: Continuous Optimization Permuted Orthogonal Block-Diagonal Transformation Matrices for Large Scale Optimization Benchmarking Ouassim Ait ElHara Anne Auger Nikolaus Hansen Projection-Based Restricted Covariance Matrix Adaptation for High Dimension Youhei Akimoto Nikolaus Hansen Analysis of Different Types of Regret in Continuous Noisy Optimization Sandra Astete-Morales Marie-Liesse Cauwet Olivier Teytaud Analysis of Linear Convergence of a (1 + 1)-ES with Augmented Lagrangian Constraint Handling Asma Atamna Anne Auger Nikolaus Hansen Experimental Investigation of Recombination Operators for Differential Evolution Felipe Campelo Moisés Botelho Low-Budget Exploratory Landscape Analysis on Multiple Peaks Models Pascal Kerschke Mike Preuss Simon Wessing Heike Trautmann Population Size Adaptation for the CMA-ES Based on the Estimation Accuracy of the Natural Gradient Kouhei Nishida Youhei Akimoto Two-Dimensional Barcode Decoration Using Module-wise Non-systematic Coding and Cooperative Evolution by User and System Makoto Kamizono Kigo Shimomura Masayuki Tajiri Satoshi Ono SESSION: Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts General Video Game Level Generation Ahmed Khalifa Diego Perez-Liebana Simon M. Lucas Julian Togelius Evotype: From Shapes to Glyphs Tiago Martins João Correia Ernesto Costa Penousal Machado Demonstrating the Feasibility of Automatic Game Balancing Vanessa Volz Günter Rudolph Boris Naujoks Discovering Combos in Fighting Games with Evolutionary Algorithms Gianlucca L. Zuin Yuri P.A. Macedo Luiz Chaimowicz Gisele L. Pappa SESSION: Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization and Metaheuristics Extension of the CMSA Algorithm: An LP-based Way for Reducing Sub-instances Christian Blum Jordi Pereira Fast Heuristics for the Multiple Traveling Thieves Problem Shelvin Chand Markus Wagner Cellular Genetic Algorithm for Solving a Routing On-Demand Transit Problem Olfa Chebbi Ezzeddine Fatnassi Jouhaina Chaouachi Nouha Nouri Efficient Hill Climber for Constrained Pseudo-Boolean Optimization Problems Francisco Chicano Darrell Whitley Renato Tinos Population-based vs. Single-solution Heuristics for the Travelling Thief Problem Mohamed El Yafrani Belaïd Ahiod Communities of Local Optima as Funnels in Fitness Landscapes Sebastian Herrmann Gabriela Ochoa Franz Rothlauf A Population-based Local Search Technique with Random Descent and Jump for the Steiner Tree Problem in Graphs Angus Kenny Xiaodong Li A K. Qin Andreas T. Ernst A Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Maximum Common Edge Subgraph Detection in Biological Networks Simon J. Larsen Frederik G. Alkærsig Henrik J. Ditzel Igor Jurisica Nicolas Alcaraz Jan Baumbach Multi-objective Neutral Neighbors': What could be the definition(s)? Marie-Eléonore Marmion Hernan Aguirre Clarisse Dhaenens Laetitia Jourdan Kiyoshi Tanaka HMOBEDA: Hybrid Multi-objective Bayesian Estimation of Distribution Algorithm Marcella S.R. Martins Myriam R.B.S. Delgado Roberto Santana Ricardo Lüders Richard Aderbal Gonçalves Carolina Paula de Almeida Feature Selection in Evolving Job Shop Dispatching Rules with Genetic Programming Yi Mei Mengjie Zhang Su Nyugen Additional Dimensions to the Study of Funnels in Combinatorial Landscapes Gabriela Ochoa Nadarajen Veerapen Multi-hard Problems in Uncertain Environment Michal Roman Przybylek Adam Wierzbicki Zbigniew Michalewicz Ants can Learn from the Opposite Nicolás Rojas-Morales María-Cristina Riff Elizabeth Montero Evolutionary Approaches to Optimization Problems in Chimera Topologies Roberto Santana Zheng Zhu Helmut G. Katzgraber Game theory, Extremal optimization, and Community Structure Detection in Complex Networks Mihai Suciu Rodica Ioana Lung Noémi Gaskó On the Impact of the Renting Rate for the Unconstrained Nonlinear Knapsack Problem Junhua Wu Sergey Polyakovskiy Frank Neumann On the Design of Hard mUBQP Instances Murilo Zangari Roberto Santana Alexander Mendiburu Aurora Pozo SESSION: Evolutionary Machine Learning Human-inspired Scaling in Learning Classifier Systems: Case Study on the n-bit Multiplexer Problem Set Isidro M. Alvarez Will N. Browne Mengjie Zhang Using an Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Monotonic Regression Rule Discovery James Brookhouse Fernando E.B. Otero Evolving Probabilistically Significant Epistatic Classification Rules for Heterogeneous Big Datasets John P. Hanley Margaret J. Eppstein Jeffrey S. Buzas Donna M. Rizzo Transferable XCS Xianneng Li Guangfei Yang Improving the Canny Edge Detector Using Automatic Programming: Improving Non-Max Suppression Lars Vidar Magnusson Roland Olsson Fast Bi-Objective Feature Selection Using Entropy Measures and Bayesian Inference Yi Mei Bing Xue Mengjie Zhang Simple Evolutionary Optimization Can Rival Stochastic Gradient Descent in Neural Networks Gregory Morse Kenneth O. Stanley Evaluation of a Tree-based Pipeline Optimization Tool for Automating Data Science Randal S. Olson Nathan Bartley Ryan J. Urbanowicz Jason H. Moore A Hybrid Approach for Sleep Stages Classification Abdelhamid Ouanes Lilia Rejeb Evolving Deep LSTM-based Memory Networks using an Information Maximization Objective Aditya Rawal Risto Miikkulainen A New Evaluation Function for Clustering: The NK Internal Validation Criterion Renato Tinós Zhao Liang Francisco Chicano Darrell Whitley A Wavelet-based Encoding for Neuroevolution Sjoerd van Steenkiste Jan Koutník Kurt Driessens Jürgen Schmidhuber SESSION: Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Karush-Kuhn-Tucker Proximity Measure for Multi-Objective Optimization Based on Numerical Gradients Mohamed Abouhawwash Kalyanmoy Deb Tuning of Multiple Parameter Sets in Evolutionary Algorithms Martin Andersson Sunith Bandaru Amos H.C. Ng Experiments on Greedy and Local Search Heuristics for ddimensional Hypervolume Subset Selection Matthieu Basseur Bilel Derbel Adrien Goëffon Arnaud Liefooghe Bio-inspired Multi-objective Optimization Design of a Highly Efficient Squirrel Cage Induction Motor Sergio F. Contreras Camilo A. Cortés María A. Guzmán Runtime Analysis of Evolutionary Diversity Maximization for OneMinMax Benjamin Doerr Wanru Gao Frank Neumann A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm based on Parallel Coordinates Raquel Hernández Gómez Carlos A. Coello Coello Enrique Alba Torres A Generative Kriging Surrogate Model for Constrained and Unconstrained Multi-objective Optimization Rayan Hussein Kalyanmoy Deb A Correlation Analysis of Set Quality Indicator Values in Multiobjective Optimization Arnaud Liefooghe Bilel Derbel Active Learning in Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms for Sustainable Building Design Siamak Safarzadegan Gilan Naman Goyal Bistra Dilkina A Toolkit for Generating Scalable Stochastic Multiobjective Test Problems Shaul Salomon Robin Charles Purshouse Ioannis Giaghiozis Peter John Fleming A novel Multi-objective Optimization-based Image Registration Method Meifeng Shi Zhongshi He Ziyu Chen Hang Zhang A Faster Algorithm for the Binary Epsilon Indicator Based on Orthant Minimum Search Andrey Vasin Maxim Buzdalov SESSION: Genetic Algorithms Hidden Genes Genetic Algorithms for Systems Architecture Optimization Ossama Abdelkhalik Shadi Darani Expanding from Discrete Cartesian to Permutation Gene-pool Optimal Mixing Evolutionary Algorithms Peter A.N. Bosman Ngoc Hoang Luong Dirk Thierens Escaping Local Optima with Diversity Mechanisms and Crossover Duc-Cuong Dang Tobias Friedrich Timo Kötzing Martin S. Krejca Per Kristian Lehre Pietro S. Oliveto Dirk Sudholt Andrew M. Sutton Breaking the Billion-Variable Barrier in Real-World Optimization Using a Customized Evolutionary Algorithm Kalyanmoy Deb Christie Myburgh Fast Building Block Assembly by Majority Vote Crossover Tobias Friedrich Timo Kötzing Martin S. Krejca Samadhi Nallaperuma Frank Neumann Martin Schirneck Runtime Analysis for the Parameter-less Population Pyramid Brian W. Goldman Dirk Sudholt Surprise Search: Beyond Objectives and Novelty Daniele Gravina Antonios Liapis Georgios Yannakakis A Parallel Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for the k-Edge-Connected Hop-Constrained Network Design Problem Mohamed Khalil Labidi Ibrahima Diarrassouba Ali Ridha Mahjoub Anissa Omrane Estimating the Advantage of Age-Layering in Evolutionary Algorithms Hormoz Shahrzad Babak Hodjat Risto Miikkulainen Exploiting Diverse Distance Metrics for Surrogate-Based Optimisation of Ordering Problems: A Case Study Jim Smith Christopher Stone Martin Serpell SESSION: Genetic Programming Improving Generalisation of Genetic Programming for Symbolic Regression with Structural Risk Minimisation Qi Chen Bing Xue Lin Shang Mengjie Zhang The Impact of Hyperselection on Lexicase Selection Thomas Helmuth Nicholas Freitag McPhee Lee Spector Automatically Designing More General Mutation Operators of Evolutionary Programming for Groups of Function Classes Using a Hyper-Heuristic Libin Hong John H. Drake John R. Woodward Ender Özcan Quantitative Analysis of Evolvability using Vertex Centralities in Phenotype Network Ting Hu Wolfgang Banzhaf Epsilon-Lexicase Selection for Regression William La Cava Lee Spector Kourosh Danai Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Unsupervised Derivation of Search Objectives in Genetic Programming Paweł Liskowski Krzysztof Krawiec A New Wave: A Dynamic Approach to Genetic Programming David Medernach Jeannie Fitzgerald R. Muhammad Atif Azad Conor Ryan Managing Repetition in Grammar-Based Genetic Programming Miguel Nicolau Michael Fenton A Dispersion Operator for Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming Luiz Otavio V.B. Oliveira Fernando E.B. Otero Gisele L. Pappa Evolving Algebraic Constructions for Designing Bent Boolean Functions Stjepan Picek Domagoj Jakobovic Discovering Rubik's Cube Subgroups using Coevolutionary GP: A Five Twist Experiment Robert J. Smith Stephen Kelly Malcolm I. Heywood Reducing Antagonism between Behavioral Diversity and Fitness in Semantic Genetic Programming Marcin Szubert Anuradha Kodali Sangram Ganguly Kamalika Das Josh C. Bongard SESSION: Integrative Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Approximation of (k,t)-robust Equilibria Tudor Dan Mihoc Rodica Ioana Lung Noémi Gaskó Mihai Suciu Classification of Cardiac Arrhythmia by Random Forests with Features Constructed by Kaizen Programming with Linear Genetic Programming Léo F.D.P. Sotto Regina C. Coelho Vinícius V. de Melo SESSION: Parallel Evolutionary Systems The Seamless Peer and Cloud Evolution Framework Guillaume Leclerc Joshua E. Auerbach Giovanni Iacca Dario Floreano Hardware-Accelerated Parallel Genetic Algorithm for Fitness Functions with Variable Execution Times Yunfeng Ma Leandro Soares Indrusiak Performance for the Masses: Experiments with A Web Based Architecture to Harness Volunteer Resources for Low Cost Distributed Evolutionary Computation Juan J. Merelo Pedro A. Castillo Pablo García-Sánchez Paloma de las Cuevas Nuria Rico Mario García Valdez Evaluation-Time Bias in Quasi-Generational and Steady-State Asynchronous Evolutionary Algorithms Eric O. Scott Kenneth A. De Jong SESSION: Real World Applications A Hybrid Multi-Population Genetic Algorithm for UAV Path Planning Márcio da Silva Arantes Jesimar da Silva Arantes Claudio Fabiano Motta Toledo Brian C. Williams Planning Habitat Restoration with Genetic Algorithms Jana Brotankova Tommaso Urli Philip Kilby New Bounds for Office Space Allocation using Tabu Search Francisco Castillo Maria-Cristina Riff Elizabeth Montero Multiobjective Neuroevolutionary Control for a Fuel Cell Turbine Hybrid Energy System Mitchell Colby Logan Yliniemi Paolo Pezzini David Tucker Kenneth "Mark" Bryden Kagan Tumer A Genetic Decomposition Algorithm for Predicting Rainfall within Financial Weather Derivatives Sam Cramer Michael Kampouridis Alex Freitas Planning Inspection Paths through Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization Kai Olav Ellefsen Herman A. Lepikson Jan C. Albiez Evolutionary Design of Fast High-quality Hash Functions for Network Applications David Grochol Lukas Sekanina A Genetic Algorithm for Rule-based Chart Pattern Search in Stock Market Prices Myoung Hoon Ha Sangyeop Lee Byung-Ro Moon Neuroevolution of a Hybrid Power Plant Simulator Shauharda Khadka Kagan Tumer Mitch Colby Dave Tucker Paolo Pezzini Kenneth Bryden Measuring Source Code Similarity by Finding Similar Subgraph with an Incremental Genetic Algorithm Jinhyun Kim HyukGeun Choi Hansang Yun Byung-Ro Moon Evolutionary Feature Subset Selection with Compression-based Entropy Estimation Pavel Krömer Jan Platoš Finding Reliable Solutions in Bilevel Optimization Problems Under Uncertainties Zhichao Lu Kalyanmoy Deb Ankur Sinha Evolutionary Learning of Scheduling Heuristics for Heterogeneous Wireless Communications Networks David Lynch Michael Fenton Stepan Kucera Holger Claussen Michael O'Neill A Sparse Recurrent Neural Network for Trajectory Prediction of Atlantic Hurricanes Mina Moradi Kordmahalleh Mohammad Gorji Sefidmazgi Abdollah Homaifar Tackling the IFP Problem with the Preference-Based Genetic Algorithm Sune S. Nielsen Christof Ferreira Torres Gregoire Danoy Pascal Bouvry Grammatical Evolutionary Techniques for Prompt Migraine Prediction Josué Pagán José L. Risco-Martín José M. Moya José L. Ayala A Real World Multi-UAV Evolutionary Planner for Minimum Time Target Detection Sara Perez-Carabaza Eva Besada-Portas Jose A. Lopez-Orozco Jesus M. de la Cruz Finding Interactions or Relationships between Customer Orders for Building Better Batches by Means of an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm-based Approach for the Online Order Batching Problem Ricardo Pérez-Rodríguez Arturo Hernández-Aguirre Grammatical Evolution Enhancing Simulated Annealing for the Load Balancing Problem in Cloud Computing Nasser R. Sabar Andy Song Benchmarks for the Coal Processing and Blending Problem Sven Schellenberg Xiaodong Li Zbigniew Michalewicz Fine Tuning of Traffic in our Cities with Smart Panels: The Quito City Case Study Daniel H. Stolfi Rolando Armas Enrique Alba Hernan Aguirre Kiyoshi Tanaka Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization of Winglets Mateus A.M. Teixeira Fillipe Goulart Felipe Campelo Selection of a DFO Method for the Efficient Solution of Continuous Constrained Sub-Problems within a Memetic Algorithm for Chemical Process Synthesis Maren Urselmann Christophe Foussette Tim Janus Stephen Tlatlik Axel Gottschalk Michael T.M. Emmerich Sebastian Engell Thomas Bäck Artificial Multi-Bee-Colony Algorithm for k-Nearest-Neighbor Fields Search Yunhai Wang Yiming Qian Yang Li Minglun Gong Wolfgang Banzhaf Fast and Effective Optimisation of Arrays of Submerged Wave Energy Converters Junhua Wu Slava Shekh Nataliia Y. Sergiienko Benjamin S. Cazzolato Boyin Ding Frank Neumann Markus Wagner SESSION: Search-Based Software Engineering and Self-* Search Test Case Prioritization of Configurable Cyber-Physical Systems with Weight-Based Search Algorithms Aitor Arrieta Shuai Wang Goiuria Sagardui Leire Etxeberria Learning Overtime Dynamics Through Multiobjective Optimization Marcio de O. Barros Luiz Antonio O. de Araujo, Jr. Grammatical Evolution for the Multi-Objective Integration and Test Order Problem Thainá Mariani Giovani Guizzo Silvia R. Vergilio Aurora T.R. Pozo A Search-based Training Algorithm for Cost-aware Defect Prediction Annibale Panichella Carol V. Alexandru Sebastiano Panichella Alberto Bacchelli Harald C. Gall Search-Based Cost-Effective Test Case Selection within a Time Budget: An Empirical Study Dipesh Pradhan Shuai Wang Shaukat Ali Tao Yue A Combined Generative and Selective Hyper-heuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem Kevin Sim Emma Hart SESSION: Theory Noisy Optimization: Fast Convergence Rates with Comparison-Based Algorithms Marie-Liesse Cauwet Olivier Teytaud Optimal Parameter Settings for the (1 + λ, λ) Genetic Algorithm Benjamin Doerr The Right Mutation Strength for Multi-Valued Decision Variables Benjamin Doerr Carola Doerr Timo Koetzing Optimal Parameter Choices via Precise Black-Box Analysis Benjamin Doerr Carola Doerr Jing Yang The (1+1) Elitist Black-Box Complexity of LeadingOnes Carola Doerr Johannes Lengler EDAs cannot be Balanced and Stable Tobias Friedrich Timo Kötzing Martin S. Krejca Optimal Mutation Rates for the (1+λ) EA on OneMax Christian Gießen Carsten Witt The Impact of Migration Topology on the Runtime of Island Models in Dynamic Optimization Andrei Lissovoi Carsten Witt When Non-Elitism Outperforms Elitism for Crossing Fitness Valleys Pietro S. Oliveto Tiago Paixão Jorge Pérez Heredia Dirk Sudholt Barbora Trubenová