GECCO '17- Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion GECCO '17- Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion Full Citation in the ACM Digital Library SESSION: Hot off the press The unrestricted black-box complexity of jump functions Maxim Buzdalov Benjamin Doerr Mikhail Kever Multilayer optimization of heterogeneous networks using grammatical genetic programming Michael Fenton David Lynch Stepan Kucera Holger Claussen Michael O'Neill On constructing ensembles for combinatorial optimisation Emma Hart Kevin Sim Evolutionary algorithm with a directional local search for multiobjective optimization in combinatorial problems Krzysztof Michalak Effective visualisation of the high-dimensional pareto-optimal solutions Maizura Mokhtar Ian Hunt Stephen Burns Dave Ross Downscaling near-surface atmospheric fields with multi-objective genetic programming Tanja Zerenner Victor Venema Petra Friederichs Clemens Simmer SESSION: Late-breaking abstracts A novel iterative improvement pivoting rule for local search heuristics Saad Bougrine Mohammed Amine El Majdouli Abdelhakim Ameur El Imrani An approach of satellite periodic continuous observation task scheduling based on evolutionary computation Hao. Chen Chun. Du Jun. Li Ning. Jing Lingfeng. Wang BBIOS: a characterization of evolutionary algorithm stability Matthew J. Craven Simon P. Martin Exploring the (efficient) frontiers of portfolio optimization Matthew J. Craven David I. Graham Optimizing LSTM RNNs using ACO to predict turbine engine vibration AbdElRahman ElSaid Brandon Wild Fatima El Jamiy James Higgins Travis Desell Social trends in the iterated prisoner's dilemma Jessica Finocchiaro H. David Mathias Solving order/degree problems by using EDA-GK H. Handa R. Hasegawa A bi-objective memetic algorithm proposal for solving the minimum sum coloring problem Olfa Harrabi Ezzeddine Fatnassi Hend Bouziri Jouhaina Chaouachi Solving a large sudoku by co-evolving numerals Jeffrey Horn Multi-document summarization using evolutionary multi-objective optimization Chihoon Jung Rituparna Datta Aviv Segev Discovering weekly seasonality for water demand prediction using evolutionary algorithms Piotr Lipinski Patryk Filipiak Pawel Rychlikowski Justyna Stanczyk Joanna Kajewska-Szkudlarek Janusz Lomotowski Tomasz Konieczny Utilization of infeasible solutions in MOEA/D for solving constrained many-objective optimization problems Minami Miyakawa Hiroyuki Sato Yuji Sato Melody composition using geometric crossover for variable-length encoding Yong-Wook Nam Yong-Hyuk Kim Evaluating island-based EAs on unstable networks with complex failure patterns Rafael Nogueras Carlos Cotta An efficient vector-growth decomposition algorithm for cooperative coevolution in solving large scale problems Zhigang Ren An Chen Lin Wang Yongsheng Liang Bei Pang Optimization of solid waste collection: two ACO approaches E. A. Mancera-Galván Beatriz A. Garro K. Rodríguez-Vázquez General aspect-based selection concept for multi- and many-objective molecular optimization Susanne Rosenthal Markus Borschbach Hierarchical pattern mining based on swarm intelligence Kazuaki Tsuboi Satoshi Suga Satoshi Kurihara POSTER SESSION: Ant colony optimization and swarm intelligence Particle swarm optimization based on island models Houda Abadlia Nadia Smairi Khaled Ghedira Parallel ant colony optimization for evacuation planning Manel Hajjem Hend Bouziri El-Ghazali Talbi Khaled Mellouli POSTER SESSION: Complex systems (artificial life/artificial immune systems/robotics/evolvable hardware/generative and developmental systems) Ecological modularity as a means to reduce necessary training environments in evolutionary robotics Collin Cappelle Anton Bernatskiy Josh C. Bongard Evolving cost functions for model predictive control of multi-agent UAV combat swarms David D. Fan Evangelos Theodorou John Reeder Increasing the complexity of solutions produced by an evolutionary developmental system Heather J. Goldsby Rebecca L. Young Hans A. Hofmann Arend Hintze Automated pattern identification and classification: anomaly detection case study R. G. Goss G. S. Nitschke Exploring divergence in soft robot evolution Daniele Gravina Antonios Liapis Georgios N. Yannakakis Is social learning more than parameter tuning? Jacqueline Heinerman Jörg Stork Margarita Alejandra Rebolledo Coy Julien Hubert A. E. Eiben Thomas Bartz-Beielstein Evert Haasdijk Benefits of lamarckian evolution for morphologically evolving robots Milan Jelisavcic Rafael Kiesel Kyrre Glette Evert Haasdijk A. E. Eiben Precomputation for rapid hypothesis generation in evolutionary robotics Joel Lehman A developmental artificial neural network model for solving multiple problems Julian F. Miller Dennis G. Wilson The EMeRGE modular robot, an open platform for quick testing of evolved robot morphologies Rodrigo Moreno Ceyue Liu Andres Faina Henry Hernandez Jonatan Gomez GP-based motion control design for the double-integrator system subject to velocity constraint Ollin Peñaloza-Mejía Eddie Clemente Marlen Meza-Sánchez Cynthia B. Pérez Francisco Chávez Balancing selection pressures, multiple objectives, and neural modularity to coevolve cooperative agent behavior Alex C. Rollins Jacob Schrum Evolutionary search for paths on protein energy landscapes Emmanuel Sapin Kenneth De Jong Amarda Shehu Embodied evolution versus cooperative coevolution in multi-robot optimization: a practical comparison P. Trueba A. Prieto F. Bellas Exploiting environmental differentiation to promote evolvability in artificial evolution Jonata Tyska Carvalho Stefano Nolfi An evolutionary approach to behavioural morphometrics Melanie Däschinger Andreas Knote Sebastian von Mammen POSTER SESSION: Digital entertainment technologies and arts Procedural level design using an interactive cellular automata genetic algorithm Chad Adams Hirav Parekh Sushil J. Louis Gamification techniques in collaborative interactive evolutionary computation Mario García-Valdez José-C Romero Alejandra Mancilla Juan-J. Merelo Francisco Fernández-de-Vega Escher-like tiling design using hierarchical optimization Asuka Hisatomi Hitomi Koba Makoto Kamizono Kazunori Mizuno Satoshi Ono Speeding up genetic algorithm-based game balancing using fitness predictors Mihail Morosan Riccardo Poli A deep learning / neuroevolution hybrid for visual control Andreas Precht Poulsen Mark Thorhauge Mikkel Hvilshj Funch Sebastian Risi Voxelbuild: a minecraft-inspired domain for experiments in evolutionary creativity L. B. Soros Justin K. Pugh Kenneth O. Stanley Comparing multimodal optimization and illumination Vassilis Vassiliades Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis Jean-Baptiste Mouret POSTER SESSION: Evolutionary combinatorial optimization and metaheuristics A new evolutionary approach using pre-post testing to trigger exploration and exploitation in DOPs Hajer Ben-Romdhane Enrique Alba Saoussen Krichen How to get more from your model: the role of constructive selection in estimation of distribution algorithms J. R. Caldwell R. A. Watson A memetic algorithm for computing multicriteria shortest paths in stochastic multimodal networks O. Dib A. Caminada M-A. Manier L. Moalic A novel reduction algorithm for the generalized traveling salesman problem Mehdi El Krari Belaïd Ahiod Bouazza El Benani Multi-objectiveness in the single-objective traveling thief problem Mohamed El Yafrani Shelvin Chand Aneta Neumann Belaïd Ahiod Markus Wagner Parameter-less population pyramid with feedback Marcin M. Komarnicki Michal W. Przewozniczek A model-based genetic algorithm framework for constrained optimisation problems Mark Lawrenson Tommaso Urli Philip Kilby The menu planning problem: a multiobjective approach for Brazilian schools context Rafaela Priscila Cruz Moreira Elizabeth Fialho Wanner Flávio Vinícius Cruzeiro Martins João Fernando Machry Sarubbi Modeling optimization algorithm runtime behavior and its applications Qi Qi Thomas Weise Bin Li Efficient quantitative heuristics for graph clustering Rafael Santiago Luís C. Lamb Clustering of hyper-heuristic selections using the Smith-Waterman algorithm for offline learning W. B. Yates E. C. Keedwell A fast heuristic algorithm for the critical node problem Yangming Zhou Jin-Kao Hao POSTER SESSION: Evolutionary machine learning Evidential learning classifier system Chedi Abdelkarim Lilia Rejeb Lamjed Ben Said Maha Elarbi An upgraded bat algorithm for tuning extreme learning machines for data classification Adis Alihodzic Eva Tuba Milan Tuba Large scale evolution of convolutional neural networks using volunteer computing Travis Desell Revisiting interval arithmetic for regression problems in genetic programming Grant Dick Evolutionary learning of meta-rules for text classification Juan Carlos Gomez Stijn Hoskens Marie-Francine Moens Autonomous intersection driving with neuro-evolution A. Parker G. Nitschke Automated state feature learning for actor-critic reinforcement learning through NEAT Yiming Peng Gang Chen Scott Holdaway Yi Mei Mengjie Zhang cCube: a cloud microservices architecture for evolutionary machine learning classification Pasquale Salza Erik Hemberg Filomena Ferrucci Una-May O'Reilly The role of conditional independence in the evolution of intelligent systems Jory Schossau Larissa Albantakis Arend Hintze Low-power FSM synthesis using a fuzzy c-mean clustering-based decomposition Yanyun Tao Yuzhen Zhang Qinyu Wang Stability selection using a genetic algorithm and logistic linear regression on healthcare records Aleš Zamuda Christine Zarges Gregor Stiglic Goran Hrovat Linear combinations of features as leaf nodes in symbolic regression Jan Žegklitz Petr Pošík POSTER SESSION: Evolutionary multiobjective optimization Towards an epigenetics-inspired control system for power dispatch problem Daniel J. Couvertier Erik Goodman Kalyanmoy Deb Set-SMAA for finding preferable multi-objective solutions Rotem Dror Amir Kantor Michael Masin Segev Shlomov A multi-objective continuous genetic algorithm for financial portfolio optimization problem Yacine Kessaci Hybridizing non-dominated sorting algorithms: divide-and-conquer meets best order sort Margarita Markina Maxim Buzdalov The MOEA/D algorithm with gaussian neighbourhoods for the multiobjective travelling salesman problem Krzysztof Michalak Multiple reference points MOEA/D for feature selection Hoai Bach Nguyen Bing Xue Hisao Ishibuchi Peter Andreae Mengjie Zhang Solving electoral zone design problems with NSGA-II: application to redistricting in Mexico Antonin Ponsich Eric A. Rincón García Román A. Mora Gutiérrez Sergio G. de-los-Cobos Silva Miguel A. Gutiérrez Andrade Pedro Lara Velázquez Distributed NSGA-II with migration using compensation on many-core processors for improving performance and accuracy Yuji Sato Mikiko Sato Minami Miyakawa An improved MOEA/D utilizing variation angles for multi-objective optimization Hiroyuki Sato Minami Miyakawa Keiki Takadama POSTER SESSION: Evolutionary numerical optimization On the mutual information as a fitness landscape measure Rebeka Coric Stjepan Picek Domagoj Jakobovic Carlos A. Coello Coello A two-stage coevolution approach for constrained optimization Jing-Yu Ji Wei-Jie Yu Jun Zhang Interpolated continuous optimisation problems with tunable landscape features Benjamin Lacroix Lee A. Christie John A. W. McCall A new grouping strategy-based hybrid algorithm for large scale global optimization problems Haiyan Liu Yuping Wang Liwen Liu Xiao-Zhi Gao Yiu-ming Cheung Analysis of scaling for fitness landscape learning evolutionary computation based on CMA-ES Naoki Mori Taku Hasegawa Kento Tsukada Keinosuke Matsumoto Non-parametric model of the space of continuous black-box optimization problems Mario A. Muñoz Kate Smith-Miles Ordinal versus metric gaussian process regression in surrogate modelling for CMA evolution strategy Zbyněk Pitra Lukáš Bajer Jakub Repický Martin Holeňa Adaptiveness of CMA based samplers Edna Milgo Nixon Ronoh Peter Waiganjo Bernard Manderick A computationally efficient gravitational search algorithm Alex Rothwell Aldeida Aleti Modified box constraint handling for the covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy Naoki Sakamoto Youhei Akimoto POSTER SESSION: Genetic algorithms On the exploitation of search history and accumulative sampling in robust optimisation Khulood Alyahya Kevin Doherty Jonathan E. Fieldsend Ozgur E. Akman Automated case generation using a genetic algorithm Hayley Borck Mark Boddy A two-phase genetic algorithm for image registration Sarit Chicotay Eli (Omid) David Nathan S. Netanyahu A computationally fast multimodal optimization with push enabled genetic algorithm Yashesh Dhebar Kalyanmoy Deb A hybrid genetic algorithm for deploying RSUs in VANETs based on inter-contact time Marcelo Fonseca Faraj João Fernando Machry Sarubbi Cristiano Maciel da Silva Flávio Vinícius Cruzeiro Martins A genetic algorithm with randomly shifted gray codes and local optimizations based on quadratic approximations of the fitness Alexandre Mayer Overlapping community detection in social networks using a quantum-based genetic algorithm Alireza Saleh Sedghpour Amin Nikanjam Introducing the cumulation to the population based incremental learning and the compact GA to relax genetic drift Keigo Tanaka Youhei Akimoto POSTER SESSION: General evolutionary computation and hybrids Synergies between evolutionary computation and multiagent reinforcement learning: the benefits of exchanging solutions Ana L. C. Bazzan The baldwin effect on a memetic differential evolution for constrained numerical optimization problems Saul Dominguez-Isidro Efren Mezura-Montes Randomized parameter settings for a pool-based particle swarm optimization algorithm: a comparison between dynamic adaptation of parameters and randomized parameterization Amaury Hernandez-Aguila Mario Garcia-Valdez Juan Julian Merelo-Guervos Oscar Castillo A multi-objective approach for the (α, β)-k-feature set problem using memetic algorithms Francia Jiménez Claudio Sanhueza Regina Berretta Pablo Moscato Load balance aware distributed differential evolution for computationally expensive optimization problems Ning Ma Xiao-Fang Liu Zhi-Hui Zhan Jing-Hui Zhong Jun Zhang Design choices for adapting bio-hybrid systems with evolutionary computation Pedro Mariano Ziad Salem Rob Mills Payam Zahadat Luís Correia Thomas Schmickl Neural network topology and weight optimization through neuro differential evolution Karl Mason Jim Duggan Enda Howley A parallel hybrid GA-PSO approach with dynamic rule-based parameter setting Abtin Nourmohammadzadeh Sven Hartmann Hui Ma Indicator-based multi-objective genetic programming for workflow scheduling problem Qin-zhe Xiao Jinghui Zhong Wen-Neng Chen Zhi-Hui Zhan Jun Zhang POSTER SESSION: Genetic programming Evolving texture image descriptors using a multitree genetic programming representation Harith Al-Sahaf Bing Xue Mengjie Zhang Late-acceptance and step-counting hill-climbing GP for anomaly detection Van Loi Cao Miguel Nicolau James McDermott New geometric semantic operators in genetic programming: perpendicular crossover and random segment mutation Qi Chen Mengjie Zhang Bing Xue Semantic-based local search in multiobjective genetic programming Tiantian Dou Peter Rockett Dynamic GP fitness cases in static and dynamic optimisation problems Edgar Galván-López Lucia Vázquez-Mendoza Marc Schoenauer Leonardo Trujillo Genetic programming with multi-layered population structure Taku Hasegawa Naoki Mori Keinosuke Matsumoto An empirical study on the parametrization of cartesian genetic programming Paul Kaufmann Roman Kalkreuth Evolutionary linear discriminant analysis for multiclass classification problems Michael F. Korns Long-term evolution of genetic programming populations William B. Langdon Improving k-means clustering with genetic programming for feature construction Andrew Lensen Bing Xue Mengjie Zhang Learning figure-ground image segmentors by genetic programming Yuyu Liang Mengjie Zhang Will N. Browne Late-acceptance hill-climbing with a grammatical program representation James McDermott Miguel Nicolau Using algorithm configuration tools to optimize genetic programming parameters: a case study Nicholas Freitag McPhee Thomas Helmuth Lee Spector Visualizing genetic programming ancestries using graph databases Nicholas Freitag McPhee Maggie M. Casale Mitchell Finzel Thomas Helmuth Lee Spector An effective diversity promotion mechanism in grammatical evolution Eric Medvet Alberto Bartoli Giovanni Squillero Hierarchical grammatical evolution Eric Medvet Evolving S-boxes based on cellular automata with genetic programming Stjepan Picek Luca Mariot Alberto Leporati Domagoj Jakobovic Feature selection using geometric semantic genetic programming G. H. Rosa J. P. Papa L. P. Papa Multitask evolution with cartesian genetic programming Eric O. Scott Kenneth A. De Jong PSXO: population-wide semantic crossover Leonardo Vanneschi Mauro Castelli Luca Manzoni Krzysztof Krawiec Alberto Moraglio Sara Silva Ivo Gonçalves POSTER SESSION: Real world applications Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms for operational planning problems in open-pit mining Rafael F. Alexandre Felipe Campelo João A. Vasconcelos Genetic algorithms approaches for the production planning in the glass container industry Flaviana Moreira S. Amorim Márcio da Silva Arantes Claudio Fabiano Motta Toledo Pierre Eric Frisch Jesimar da Silva Arantes Bernardo Almada-Lobo Development of a multi-model system to accommodate unknown misclassification costs in prediction of patient recruitment in multicentre clinical trials Gilyana Borlikova Michael O'Neill Louis Smith Michael Phillips Applying particle swarm optimization to the motion-cueing-algorithm tuning problem Sergio Casas Cristina Portalés Inmaculada Coma Marcos Fernández Interactive evolutionary modelling of living complex food systems: freeze-drying of lactic acid bacteria T. Chabin M. Barnabé N. Boukhelifa F. Fonseca A. Tonda H. Velly N. Perrot E. Lutton ZCSR for targeting the optimal impedance in digital radio frequency matching box L.-Y. Chen Y.-L. Yang T.-C. Hsiao A comparison of fitness functions in a genetic algorithm for acoustic-articulatory parameter inversion of vowels Jared Drayton Eduardo Miranda Alexis Kirke Developing proactive defenses for computer networks with coevolutionary genetic algorithms Anthony Erb Lugo Dennis Garcia Erik Hemberg Una-May O'Reilly Toward a smart mobility system: integrating electric vehicles within smart cities Ezzeddine Fatnassi Olfa Harrabi Jouhaina Chaouachi Scheduling a continues galvanization line using genetic algorithm H. Fox S. Ben Alul M. Weiss Cohen Community detection in power grids by an evolutionary method Manuel Guerrero Consolación Gil Francisco G. Montoya Alfredo Alcayde Raúl Bańos A hybrid genetic algorithm for climate input features and neural network parameters selection Ali Haidar Brijesh Verma Automatically difficulty grading method of "instruction system" question bank based on knowledge tree Chengcheng Liu Jin Zhang Yang Zhou Shunjian Tian Xiaoli Gong Xin Wei Fast 3D path planning based on heuristic-aided differential evolution Ning Ma Xue Yu Wei-Neng Chen Jun Zhang On evolutionary computation for moving target defense in software defined networks Adetokunbo Makanju A. Nur Zincir-Heywood Shinsaku Kiyomoto Reducing systemic risk in multiplex networks using evolutionary optimization Krzysztof Michalak Single and multi-objective genetic algorithms for the container loading problem Gara Miranda Algirdas Lančinskas Yanira González Computing a new central terminal for ECG recording using combined genetic algorithm and linear regression from real patient data Hossein Moeinzadeh Gaetano D. Gargiulo Paolo Bifulco Mario Cesarelli Alistair L. McEwan Aiden O'Loughlin Ibrahim M. Shugman Jonathan C. Tapson Aravinda Thiagalingam Massive asynchronous master-worker EA for nuclear reactor optimization: a fitness landscape perspective Mathieu Muniglia Sébastien Verel Jean-Charles Le Pallec Jean-Michel Do Using desirability functions for many-objective optimization of a hybrid car controller Yuka Ogino Ryoya Iida Tobias Rodemann Evolutionary computation at work for the optimization of link state routing protocols Vitor Pereira Pedro Sousa Miguel Rocha Application of a memetic algorithm to the fleet size and mix vehicle routing problem with electric modular vehicles Dhekra Rezgui Jouhaina Chaouachi-Siala Wassila Aggoune-Mtalaa Hend Bouziri A genetic algorithm for hybrid VANETs with synchronous communication João M. Sarubbi Flavio C. Martins Cristiano M. Silva Elizabeth Wanner Short versus long-term urban planning using multi-objective optimization Jonas Schwaab Kalyanmoy Deb Erik Goodman Sven Lautenbach Maarten van Strien Adrienne Grět-Regamey A fast hybrid evolutionary algorithm with inexact fitness evaluation for solving two-stage stochastic scheduling problems Thomas Siwczyk Sebastian Engell Evolving sharing strategies in cybersecurity information exchange framework Iman Vakilinia Sushil J. louis Shamik Sengupta POSTER SESSION: Search-based software engineering Software change prediction using voting particle swarm optimization based ensemble classifier Ruchika Malhotra Megha Khanna POSTER SESSION: Theory Analyzing search heuristics with differential equations Tobias Friedrich Timo Kötzing Anna Melnichenko Simple problems: the simplicial gluing structure of pareto sets and pareto fronts Naoki Hamada An initial error analysis for evolutionary algorithms Jun He Yuren Zhou Guangming Li