GECCO '19: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion GECCO '19: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion Full Citation in the ACM Digital Library POSTER SESSION: Poster: Ant colony optimization and swarm intelligence Scaling ACO to large-scale vehicle fleet optimisation via partial-ACO Darren M. Chitty Elizabeth Wanner Rakhi Parmar Peter R. Lewis Collaborative diversity control strategy for random drift particle swarm optimization Chao Li Jun Sun Vasile Palade Qidong Chen Wei Fang Inferring structure and parameters of dynamic systems using particle swarm optimization Muhammad Usman Abubakr Awad Wei Pang George M. Coghill POSTER SESSION: Poster: Complex systems (artificial life/artificial immune systems/generative and developmental systems/evolutionary robotics/evolvable hardware) Learning to select mates in artificial life Dylan R. Ashley Valliappa Chockalingam Braedy Kuzma Vadim Bulitko Positive impact of isomorphic changes in the environment on collective decision-making Palina Bartashevich Sanaz Mostaghim Evolution of cellular automata development using various representations Michal Bidlo HIT-EE: a novel embodied evolutionary algorithm for low cost swarm robotics Nicolas Bredeche Evolving indoor navigational strategies using gated recurrent units in NEAT James Butterworth Rahul Savani Karl Tuyls Evaluation of runtime bounds for SELEX procedure with high selection pressure Anton Eremeev Alexander Spirov Are quality diversity algorithms better at generating stepping stones than objective-based search? Adam Gaier Alexander Asteroth Jean-Baptiste Mouret Blending notions of diversity for MAP-elites Daniele Gravina Antonios Liapis Georgios N. Yannakakis Towards continual reinforcement learning through evolutionary meta-learning Djordje Grbic Sebastian Risi MAP-Elites for noisy domains by adaptive sampling Niels Justesen Sebastian Risi Jean-Baptiste Mouret Evolutionary predator-prey robot systems: from simulation to real world Gongjin Lan Jiunhan Chen A. E. Eiben The cost of morphological complexity Alexander Furman Danielle Nagar Geoff Nitschke Comparing encodings for performance and phenotypic exploration in evolving modular robots Frank Veenstra Emma Hart Edgar Buchanan Wei Li Matteo De Carlo Agoston E. Eiben POSTER SESSION: Poster: Digital entertainment technologies and arts Solving nurikabe with ant colony optimization Martyn Amos Matthew Crossley Huw Lloyd Crowd-sourcing the sounds of places with a web-based evolutionary algorithm Alexander E. I. Brownlee Suk-Jun Kim Szu-Han Wang Stella Chan Jamie A. Lawson Improved free form evolution for angry birds structures Laura Calle Juan-Julián Merelo-Guervós Antonio Mora-García Mario García Valdez Evolving music with emotional feedback Paul Cohen Geoff Nitschke POSTER SESSION: Poster: Evolutionary combinatorial optimization and metaheuristics Towards a formal specification of local search neighborhoods from a constraint satisfaction problem structure Mateusz Ślażyński Salvador Abreu Grzegorz J. Nalepa Noisy combinatorial optimisation by evolutionary algorithms Aishwaryaprajna Jonathan E. Rowe Approaching the quadratic assignment problem with kernels of mallows models under the hamming distance Etor Arza Josu Ceberio Aritz Pérez Ekhiñe Irurozki Optimizing permutation-based problems with a discrete vine-copula as a model for EDA Abdelhakim Cheriet Roberto Santana Simulated annealing for the single-vehicle cyclic inventory routing problem Aldy Gunawan Vincent F. Yu Audrey Tedja Widjaja Pieter Vansteenwegen Decentralised multi-demic evolutionary approach to the dynamic multi-agent travelling salesman problem Thomas Kent Arthur Richards Ranking-based discrete optimization algorithm for asymmetric competitive facility location Algirdas Lančinskas Julius Žilinskas Pascual Fernández Blas Pelegrín Does constraining the search space of GA always help?: the case of balanced crossover operators Luca Manzoni Luca Mariot Eva Tuba The quadratic assignment problem: metaheuristic optimization using HC12 algorithm Radomil Matousek Ladislav Dobrovsky Jakub Kudela A memetic algorithm with distance-guided crossover: distributed data-intensive web service composition Soheila Sadeghiram Hui Ma Gang Chen POSTER SESSION: Poster: Evolutionary machine learning Identifying idealised vectors for emotion detection using CMA-ES Mohammed Alshahrani Spyridon Samothrakis Maria Fasli Improving classification performance of support vector machines via guided custom kernel search Kumar Ayush Abhishek Sinha Differential evolution for instance based transfer learning in genetic programming for symbolic regression Qi Chen Bing Xue Mengjie Zhang Evolutionary data augmentation in deep face detection João Correia Tiago Martins Penousal Machado Evolutionarily-tuned support vector machines Wojciech Dudzik Michal Kawulok Jakub Nalepa Using genetic programming for combining an ensemble of local and global outlier algorithms to detect new attacks Gianluigi Folino Francesco Sergio Pisani Luigi Pontieri Pietro Sabatino Maryam Amir Haeri Multiobjective multi unit-type neuroevolution for micro in RTS games Aavaas Gajurel Sushil J. Louis Nested monte carlo search expression discovery for the automated design of fuzzy ART category choice functions Marketa Illetskova Islam Elnabarawy Leonardo Enzo Brito da Silva Daniel R. Tauritz Donald C. Wunsch Novelty search for deep reinforcement learning policy network weights by action sequence edit metric distance Ethan C. Jackson Mark Daley Multi-GPU approach for big data mining: global induction of decision trees Krzysztof Jurczuk Marcin Czajkowski Marek Kretowski Augmenting neuro-evolutionary adaptation with representations does not incur a speed accuracy trade-off Douglas Kirkpatrick Arend Hintze Evolving convolutional neural networks through grammatical evolution Ricardo H. R. Lima Aurora T. R. Pozo Neural network architecture search with differentiable cartesian genetic programming for regression Marcus Märtens Dario Izzo How XCS can prevent misdistinguishing rule accuracy: a preliminary study Masaya Nakata Will Neil Browne Strategies for improving performance of evolutionary biclustering algorithm EBIC Patryk Orzechowski Jason H. Moore Reuse of program trees in genetic programming with a new fitness function in high-dimensional unbalanced classification Wenbin Pei Bing Xue Lin Shang Mengjie Zhang Evolving recurrent neural networks for emergent communication Joshua Sirota Vadim Bulitko Matthew R G Brown Sergio Poo Hernandez On the potential of evolution strategies for neural network weight optimization Hao Wang Thomas Bäck Aske Plaat Michael Emmerich Mike Preuss POSTER SESSION: Poster: Evolutionary multiobjective optimization Preference-based multiobjective virtual machine placement: a ceteris paribus approach Abdulaziz Alashaikh Eisa Alanazi A physarum-inspired competition algorithm for solving discrete multi-objective optimization problems Abubakr Awad Muhammad Usman David Lusseau George M. Coghill Wei Pang On a restart metaheuristic for real-valued multi-objective evolutionary algorithms Christina Brester Ivan Ryzhikov Eugene Semenkin Mikko Kolehmainen Evolving cooperation for the iterated prisoner's dilemma Jessica Finocchiaro H. David Mathias A component-wise study of K-RVEA: observations and potential future developments Ahsanul Habib Hemant Kumar Singh Tapabrata Ray Towards a novel NSGA-II-based approach for multi-objective scientific workflow scheduling on hybrid clouds Haithem Hafsi Hamza Gharsellaoui Sadok Bouamama Performance of dynamic algorithms on the dynamic distance minimization problem Mardé Heibig Heiner Zille Mahrokh Javadi Sanaz Mostaghim A decomposition-based EMOA for set-based robustness Carlos Ignacio Hernández Castellanos Sina Ober-Blöbaum Improved binary additive epsilon indicator for obtaining uniformly distributed solutions in multi-objective optimization Tatsumasa Ishikawa Hiroaki Fukumoto Akira Oyama Hiroyuki Nishida Modified crowding distance and mutation for multimodal multi-objective optimization Mahrokh Javadi Heiner Zille Sanaz Mostaghim Many-view clustering: an illustration using multiple dissimilarity measures Adán José-García Julia Handl Wilfrido Gómez-Flores Mario Garza-Fabre Using diversity as a priority function for resource allocation on MOEA/D Yuri Lavinas Claus Aranha Testuya Sakurai On fairness as a rostering objective Anna Lavygina Kristopher Welsh Alan Crispin Reliability-based MOGA design optimization using probabilistic response surface method and bayesian neural network Juhee Lim Jongsoo Lee A new constrained multi-objective optimization problems algorithm based on group-sorting Yijun Liu Xin Li Qijia Hao Optimisation of crop configuration using NSGA-III with categorical genetic operators Oskar Marko Dejan Pavlović Vladimir Crnojević Kalyanmoy Deb Operational decomposition for large scale multi-objective optimization problems Luis Miguel Antonio Carlos A. Coello Coello Silvia González Brambila Josué Figueroa González Guadalupe Castillo Tapia Studying com partmental models interpolation to estimate MOEAs population size Hugo Monzón Hernán Aguirre Sébastien Verel Arnaud Liefooghe Bilel Derbel Kiyoshi Tanaka Generation techniques and a novel on-line adaptation strategy for weight vectors within decomposition-based MOEAs Alberto Rodríguez Sánchez Antonin Ponsich Antonio López Jaimes Enhanced optimization with composite objectives and novelty pulsation Hormoz Shahrzad Babak Hodjat Camille Dollé Andrei Denissov Simon Lau Donn Goodhew Justin Dyer Risto Miikkulainen A parametric investigation of PBI and AASF scalarizations Hemant Kumar Singh Kalyanmoy Deb Classical MOEAs for solving a multi-objective problem of supply chain design and operation Balancing exploration and exploitation in multiobjective batch bayesian optimization Hongyan Wang Hua Xu Yuan Yuan Xiaomin Sun Junhui Deng Noisy multiobjective black-box optimization using bayesian optimization Hongyan Wang Hua Xu Yuan Yuan Junhui Deng Xiaomin Sun An a priori knee identification multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on α-dominance Guo Yu Yaochu Jin Markus Olhofer POSTER SESSION: Poster: Evolutionary numerical optimization Solving optimization problems with high conditioning by means of online whitening Samineh Bagheri Wolfgang Konen Thomas Bäck Exploitation of multiple surrogate models in multi-point infill sampling strategies P. Beaucaire Ch. Beauthier C. Sainvitu On equivalence of algorithm's implementations: the CMA-ES algorithm and its five implementations Rafał Biedrzycki Comparing reliability of grid-based quality-diversity algorithms using artificial landscapes Leo Cazenille Empirical evaluation of contextual policy search with a comparison-based surrogate model and active covariance matrix adaptation Alexander Fabisch Evaluating MAP-Elites on constrained optimization problems Stefano Fioravanzo Giovanni Iacca A new neighborhood topology for QUAntum particle swarm optimization (QUAPSO) Arnaud Flori Hamouche Oulhadj Patrick Siarry Extended stochastic derivative-free optimization on riemannian manifolds Robert Simon Fong Peter Tino An analysis of control parameters of copula-based EDA algorithm with model migration Martin Hyrš Josef Schwarz Limitations of benchmark sets and landscape features for algorithm selection and performance prediction Benjamin Lacroix John McCall On the use of metaheuristics in hyperparameters optimization of gaussian processes Pramudita Satria Palar Lavi Rizki Zuhal Koji Shimoyama On the non-convergence of differential evolution: some generalized adversarial conditions and a remedy Debolina Paul Saptarshi Chakraborty Swagatam Das Ivan Zelinka Openly revisiting derivative-free optimization Jeremy Rapin Pauline Dorval Jules Pondard Nicolas Vasilache Marie-Liesse Cauwet Camille Couprie Olivier Teytaud Investigating the effects of population size and the number of subcomponents on the performance of SHADE algorithm with random adaptive grouping for LSGO problems Evgenii Sopov Alexey Vakhnin Benchmarking the region learning-based JADE on noiseless functions Mingcheng Zuo Guangming Dai Lei Peng Maocai Wang Pan Peng Changchun Chen A new mutation operator with the ability to adjust exploration and exploitation for DE algorithm Mingcheng Zuo Guangming Dai Lei Peng Maocai Wang Pan Peng Changchun Chen GECCO black-box optimization competitions: progress from 2009 to 2018 Urban Škvorc Tome Eftimov Peter Korošec POSTER SESSION: Poster: Genetic algorithms The 1/5-th rule with rollbacks: on self-adjustment of the population size in the (1 + (λ, λ)) GA Anton Bassin Maxim Buzdalov Approximate search in dissimilarity spaces using GA David Bernhauer Tomáš Skopal A parallel multi-population biased random-key genetic algorithm for electric distribution network reconfiguration Haroldo de Faria Willian Tessaro Lunardi Holger Voos Genealogical patterns in evolutionary algorithms Carlos M. Fernandes Agostinho C. Rosa J. L. J. Laredo J. J. Merelo A change would do you good: GA-Based approach for hiding data in program executables Ryan Gabrys Luis Martinez A BRKGA for the integrated scheduling problem in FMSs S. Mahdi Homayouni Dalila B. M. M. Fontes Fernando A. C. C. Fontes Parameter-less, population-sizing DSMGA-II Marcin M. Komarnicki Michal W. Przewozniczek Genetic algorithms as shrinkers in property-based testing Fang-Yi Lo Chao-Hong Chen Ying-ping Chen Runtime analysis of abstract evolutionary search with standard crossover Tina Malalanirainy Alberto Moraglio Latin hypercube initialization strategy for design space exploration of deep neural network architectures Heitor R. Medeiros Diogo M. F. Izidio Antonyus P. do A. Ferreira Edna N. da S. Barros Multiple world genetic algorithm to analyze individually advantageous behaviors in complex networks Yutaro Miura Fujio Toriumi Toshiharu Sugawara A study of the levy distribution in generation of BRKGA random keys applied to global optimization Mariana Moura Ricardo Silva A probabilistic bitwise genetic algorithm for B-spline based image deformation estimation Takumi Nakane Takuya Akashi Xuequan Lu Chao Zhang A group work inspired generation alternation model of real-coded GA Takatoshi Niwa Koya Ihara Shohei Kato Mining a massive RNA-seq dataset with biclustering: are evolutionary approaches ready for big data? Patryk Orzechowski ason H. Moore Island model for parallel evolutionary optimization of spiking neuromorphic computing Catherine D. Schuman James S. Plank Robert M. Patton Thomas E. Potok Evolving to recognize high-dimensional relationships in data: GA operators and representation designed expressly for community detection Kenneth Smith Cezary Janikow Sharlee Climer Comparison of GAs in black-box scenarios Cheng-Hao Yang Hou-Teng Cheong Tian-Li Yu Parameter-less population pyramid with automatic feedback Adam M. Zielinski Marcin M. Komarnicki Michal W. Przewozniczek POSTER SESSION: Poster: General evolutionary computation and hybrids AlphaStar: an evolutionary computation perspective Kai Arulkumaran Antoine Cully Julian Togelius Evolved cellular automata for edge detection Alina Enescu Anca Andreica Laura Diosan Can route planning be smarter with transfer optimization? Ray Lim Yew-Soon Ong Hanh Thi Hong Phan Abhishek Gupta Allan Nengsheng Zhang Improving the algorithmic efficiency and performance of channel-based evolutionary algorithms Juan-Julián Merelo Guervós Juan Luis Jiménez Laredo Pedro A. Castillo Mario García Valdez Sergio Rojas-Galeano Textonboost based on differential evolution Keiko Ono Daisuke Tawara Yoshiko Hanada A hybrid between a surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithm and a trust region method for constrained optimization Rommel G. Regis Comparing terminal sets for evolving CMA-ES mean-update selection Samuel N. Richter Michael G. Schoen Daniel R. Tauritz A classification-based selection for evolutionary optimization Jinyuan Zhang Jimmy Xiangji Huang Qinmin Vivian Hu A population entropy based adaptation strategy for differential evolution Yanyun Zhang Guangming Dai Mingcheng Zuo Lei Peng Maocai Wang Zhengquan Liu POSTER SESSION: Poster: Genetic programming A genetic programming approach to feature selection and construction for ransomware, phishing and spam detection Harith. Al-Sahaf Ian Welch Genetic programming hyper-heuristic with knowledge transfer for uncertain capacitated arc routing problem Mazhar Ansari Ardeh Yi Mei Mengjie Zhang To adapt or not to adapt, or the beauty of random settings João E. Batista Nuno M. Rodrigues Sara Silva Parsimony measures in multi-objective genetic programming for symbolic regression Bogdan Burlacu Gabriel Kronberger Michael Kommenda Michael Affenzeller Increasing genetic programming robustness using simulated dunning-kruger effect Thomas D. Griffiths Anikó Ekárt Designing correlation immune boolean functions with minimal hamming weight using various genetic programming methods Jakub Husa Investigating the use of linear programming to solve implicit symbolic regression problems Quang Nhat Huynh Hemant Kumar Singh Tapabrata Ray Tag-accessed memory for genetic programming Alexander Lalejini Charles Ofria Space partition based gene expression programming for symbolic regression Qiang Lu Shuo Zhou Fan Tao Zhiguang Wang Transfer learning: a building block selection mechanism in genetic programming for symbolic regression Brandon Muller Harith Al-Sahaf Bing Xue Mengjie Zhang Automated design of random dynamic graph models for enterprise computer network applications Aaron Scott Pope Daniel R. Tauritz Chris Rawlings Semantic fitness function in genetic programming based on semantics flow analysis Pak-Kan Wong Man-Leung Wong Kwong-Sak Leung Multimodal genetic programming using program similarity measurement and its application to wall-following problem Shubu Yoshida Tomohiro Harada Ruck Thawonmas POSTER SESSION: Poster: Real world applications Efficient frontiers in portfolio optimisation with minimum proportion constraints Tahani S. Alotaibi Matthew J. Craven Genetic algorithms for the network slice design problem under uncertainty Thomas Bauschert Varun S. Reddy Phoneme aware speech recognition through evolutionary optimisation Jordan J. Bird Elizabeth Wanner Anikó Ekárt Diego R. Faria Bond strength prediction of FRP-bar reinforced concrete: a multi-gene genetic programming approach Hamed Bolandi Wolfgang Banzhaf Nizar Lajnef Kaveh Barri Amir. H Alavi Multi-objective genetic algorithms for reducing mark read-out effort in lithographic tests Pierluigi Frisco Timo Bootsma Thomas Bäck A genetic algorithm based column generation method for multi-depot electric bus vehicle scheduling Congcong Guo Chunlu Wang Xingquan Zuo A genetic algorithm for multi-robot routing in automated bridge inspection Nicholas Harris Siming Liu Sushil J. Louis Jim Hung La On the use of context sensitive grammars in grammatical evolution for legal non-compliance detection Carl Im Erik Hemberg EvoIsland: immersive interactive evolutionary 3D modelling Alexander Ivanov Christian Jacob Optimal equipment assignment for oil spill response using a genetic algorithm Hye-Jin Kim Junghwan Lee Jong-Hwui Yun Yong-Hyuk Kim Impact of subcircuit selection on the efficiency of CGP-based optimization of gate-level circuits Jitka Kocnova Zdenek Vasicek Discovery of robust protocols for secure quantum cryptography Walter O. Krawec Sam A. Markelon Enhancing classification performance of convolutional neural networks for prostate cancer detection on magnetic resonance images: a study with the semantic learning machine Paulo Lapa Ivo Gonçalves Leonardo Rundo Mauro Castelli Evolving planar mechanisms for the conceptual stage of mechanical design Paul Lapok Alistair Lawson Ben Paechter Benchmarking genetic programming in dynamic insider threat detection Duc C. Le Malcolm I. Heywood Nur Zincir-Heywood Multi-objective collective search and movement-based metrics in swarm robotics Sebastian Mai Heiner Zille Christoph Steup Sanaz Mostaghim Evolutionary optimization of epidemic control strategies for livestock disease prevention Krzysztof Michalak Optimization of chemical structures for seawater desalination Kyo Migishima Takahiro Fuji Hernán Aguirre Rodolfo Cruz-Silva Kiyoshi Tanaka Evolving optimal sun-shading building façades Leon Coetzee Geoff Nitschke On the design of S-box constructions with genetic programming Stjepan Picek Domagoj Jakobovic Solving the first and last mile problem with connected and autonomous vehicles Alma Rahat Ralph Ledbetter Alex Dawn Robert Byrne Richard Everson Feature selection for surrogate model-based optimization Frederik Rehbach Lorenzo Gentile Thomas Bartz-Beielstein Evolutionary refinement of the 3D structure of multi-domain protein complexes from small angle X-ray scattering data Olga Rudenko Aurelien Thureau Javier Perez Neural network-based multiomics data integration in Alzheimer's disease Pankhuri Singhal Shefali S. Verma Scott M. Dudek Marylyn D. Ritchie Neural-network assistance to calculate precise eigenvalue for fitness evaluation of real product design Yukito Tsunoda Takahiro Notsu Yasufumi Sakai Naoki Hamada Toshihiko Mori Teruo Ishihara Atsuki Inoue Graph-based multi-objective generation of customised wiring harnesses Jens Weise Steven Benkhardt Sanaz Mostaghim Study on multi-objective optimization for the allocation of transit aircraft to gateway considering satellite hall Boyuan Xia Zhiwei Yang Qingsong Zhao POSTER SESSION: Poster: Search-based software engineering Franken-swarm: grammatical evolution for the automatic generation of swarm-like meta-heuristics Anna Bogdanova Jair Pereira Junior Claus Aranha Genetic improvement of data gives binary logarithm from sqrt W. B. Langdon Justyna Petke Visualizing swarm behavior with a particle density map Hyeon-Chang Lee Yong-Hyuk Kim Security testing of web applications: a search-based approach for detecting SQL injection vulnerabilities Muyang Liu Ke Li Tao Chen Towards evolutionary theorem proving for isabelle/HOL Yutaka Nagashima A memetic NSGA-II with EDA-based local search for fully automated multiobjective web service composition Chen Wang Hui Ma Gang Chen Sven Hartmann POSTER SESSION: Poster: Theory Black-box complexity of the binary value function Nina Bulanova Maxim Buzdalov Maximizing drift is not optimal for solving OneMax Nathan Buskulic Carola Doerr Unlimited budget analysis Jun He Thomas Jansen Christine Zarges A mathematical analysis of EDAs with distance-based exponential models Imanol Unanue María Merino Jose A. Lozano