Evostar 2019

April 24, 2019

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11:10-13:20 : EvoApplications 1 Room W8 Short talks Chair: Pedro A. Castillo

• Efficient Online Hyperparameter Adaptation for Deep Reinforcement Learning, Yinda Zhou, Weiming Liu, Bin Li
• Free Form Evolution for Angry Birds Level Generation, Laura Calle, JJ Merelo, Mario García-Valdez, Antonio Mora-García
• GAMER: A Genetic Algorithm with Motion Encoding Reuse for action-adventure video games, Tasos Papagiannis, Georgios Alexandridis, Andreas Stafylopatis
• Memetic Evolution of Classification Ensembles, Szymon Piechaczek, Michal Kawulok, Jakub Nalepa
• Variable length representation for EC-based feature selection in high-dimensional data, Nicole Dalia Cilia, Claudio De Stefano, Francesco Fontanella, Alessandra Scotto di Freca
• Optimizing the C Index Using a Canonical Genetic Algorithm, Thomas Runkler, James Bezdek
• A Knowledge Based Differential Evolution Algorithm for Protein Structure Prediction, Pedro Henrique Narloch, Marcio Dorn
• Early Detection of Botnet Activities using Grammatical Evolution, Selim Yilmaz, Sevil Sen
• Exploring concurrent and stateless evolutionary algorithms, JJ Merelo, JL Jiménez-Laredo, Pedro Castillo, Mario García Valdez, Sergio Rojas
• Evolving Trust Formula to Evaluate Data Trustworthiness in VANETs Using Genetic Programming, Mehmet Aslan, Sevil Sen
• Prolong the network lifetime of Wireless Underground Sensor Networks by optimal relay node placement, Tam Nguyen Thi, Binh Huynh Thi Thanh, Hung Tran Huy, Dung Dinh Anh, Vinh Le Trong

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14:30-16:20 : EvoApplications 2 Room W8 Short talks Chair: Francisco Fernández de Vega

• Coevolution of Generative Adversarial Networks, Victor Costa, Nuno Lourenço, Penousal Machado
• Compact Optimization Algorithms with Re-sampled Inheritance, Giovanni Iacca, Fabio Caraffini
• Fundamental Flowers: Evolutionary Discovery of Coresets for Classification, Pietro Barbiero, Alberto Tonda
• A flexible dissimilarity measure for active and passive 3D structures and its application in the fitness-distance analysis, Maciej Komosinski, Agnieszka Mensfelt
• A Hybrid Multiobjective Differential Evolution Approach to Stator Winding Optimization, André Silva, Fernando Ferreira, Carlos Antunes
• Evolutionary successful strategies in a transparent iterated Prisoner's Dilemma, Anton M. Unakafov, Thomas Schultze, Igor Kagan, Sebastian Moeller, Alexander Gail, Stefan Treue, Stephan Eule, Fred Wolf
• Evolutionary Computation Techniques for Constructing SAT-based Attacks in Algebraic Cryptanalysis, Artyom Pavlenko, Alexander Semenov, Vladimir Ulyantsev
• On the Use of Evolutionary Computation for In-Silico Medicine: Modelling Sepsis via Evolving Continuous Petri Nets, Ahmed Hallawa, Elisabeth Zechendorf, Yi Song, Anke Schmeink, Arne Peine, Lukas Martin, Gerd Ascheid, Guido Dartmann

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16:40-18:00 : EvoApplications 3 - Robots and Engineering Applications Room W8 Two long and two short talks Chair: Kyrre Glette

• Influence of Local Selection and Robot Swarm Density on the Distributed Evolution of GRNs, Iñaki Fernández Pérez, Stéphane Sanchez
• Body Symmetry in Morphologically Evolving Modular Robots, T. van de Velde, C. Rossi, A.E. Eiben
• Trophallaxis, Low-power Vision Sensors andMulti-objective Heuristics for 3D Scene Reconstruction using Swarm Robotics, Maria Carrillo, Javier Sanchez-Cubillo, Eneko Osaba, Miren Nekane Bilbao, Javier Del Ser
• Evolving Robots on Easy Mode: Towards a Variable Complexity Controller for Quadrupeds, Tønnes F. Nygaard, Charles P. Martin, Jim Torresen, Kyrre Glette
• Introducing Weighted Intermediate Recombination in On-line Collective Robotics, Amine Boumaza

April 25, 2019

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09:30-11:10 : EvoApplications 4 - Engineering and Real World Applications Room W8 Chair: Sara Silva

• Solving the Multi-Objective Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling Problem with Alternative Recipes for a Chemical Production Process, Piotr Dziurzanski, Shuai Zhao, Jerry Swan, Leandro Indrusiak, Sebastian Scholze, Karl Krone
• GA-Novo: De Novo Peptide Sequencing via Tandem Mass Spectrometry using Genetic Algorithm, Samaneh Azari, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang, Lifeng Peng
• Ant Colony Optimization for Optimized Operation Scheduling of Combined Heat and Power Plants, Johannes Mast, Stefan Rädle, Joachim Gerlach, Oliver Bringmann
• A Comparison of Different Many-Objective Optimization Algorithms for Energy System Optimization, Tobias Rodemann

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11:30-13:15 : EvoApplications 5 - Engineering and Real World Applications Room W8 Chair: Giovanni Iacca

• Design of Powered Floor Systems for Mobile Robots with Differential Evolution, Eric Medvet, Stefano Seriani, Alberto Bartoli, Paolo Gallina
• Quantifying the effects of increasing user choice in MAP-Elites applied to a Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem, Neil Urquhart, Emma Hart, William Hutcheson
• A Biased Random Key Genetic Algorithm with Local Search Chains for Molecular Docking, Pablo Felipe Leonhart, Marcio Dorn
• A Cultural Algorithm for Determining Similarity Values Between Users in Recommender Systems, Kalyani Selvarajah, Ziad Kobti, Mehdi Kargar

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14:15-16:00 : EvoApplications 6 - Best Paper nominations Session Room W8 Chair: Paul Kaufmann

• Particle Swarm Optimization: Understanding Order-2 Stability Guarantees, Christopher Cleghorn
• Supporting Medical Decisions for Treating Rare Diseases through Genetic Programming, Illya Bakurov, Leonardo Vanneschi, Mauro Castelli, Maria Joaõ Freitas
• Evolutionary Algorithms for the Design of Quantum Protocols, Walter Krawec, Stjepan Picek, Domagoj Jakobovic

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16:20-18:00 : EvoApplications 7 Room W8 Chair: Juan Luis Jiménez-Laredo

• A Matheuristic for Green and Robust 5G Virtual Network Function, Thomas Bauschert, Fabio D’Andreagiovanni, Andreas Kassler, Chenghao Wang
• Genetic Programming for Feature Selection and Feature Combination in Salient Object Detection, Shima Afzali, Harith Al-Sahaf, Bing Xue, Christopher Hollitt, Mengjie Zhang
• Self-sustainability Challenges of Plants Colonization Strategies in Virtual 3D Environments, Kevin Godin-Dubois, Sylvain Cussat-Blanc, Yves Duthen
• Effects of Input Addition in Learning for Adaptive Games: Towards Learning with Structural Changes, Iago Bonnici, Abdelkader Gouaïch, Fabien Michel

April 26, 2019

10:00-11:30 : EvoApplications 8 - Neuroevolution Room W8 Chair: Alberto Tonda

• The Evolution of Self-taught Neural Networks in a Multi-agent Environment, Nam Le, Michael O’Neill, Anthony Brabazon
• Improving NeuroEvolution Efficiency by Surrogate Model-based Optimization with Phenotypic Distance Kernels, Jörg Stork, Martin Zaefferer, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein
• Evolving Recurrent Neural Networks for Time Series Data Prediction of Coal Plant Parameters, Abd-El-Rahman ElSaid, Steven Benson, Shuchita Patwardhan, David Stadem, Travis Desell