Genetic and Evolutionary Computation - GECCO 2003 : Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Chicago, IL, USA, July 12-16, 2003 Proceedings, Part II

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Genetic Algorithms.- Design of Multithreaded Estimation of Distribution Algorithms.- Reinforcement Learning Estimation of Distribution Algorithm.- Hierarchical BOA Solves Ising Spin Glasses and MAXSAT.- ERA: An Algorithm for Reducing the Epistasis of SAT Problems.- Learning a Procedure That Can Solve Hard Bin-Packing Problems: A New GA-Based Approach to Hyper-heuristics.- Population Sizing for the Redundant Trivial Voting Mapping.- Non-stationary Function Optimization Using Polygenic Inheritance.- Scalability of Selectorecombinative Genetic Algorithms for Problems with Tight Linkage.- New Entropy-Based Measures of Gene Significance and Epistasis.- A Survey on Chromosomal Structures and Operators for Exploiting Topological Linkages of Genes.- Cellular Programming and Symmetric Key Cryptography Systems.- Mating Restriction and Niching Pressure: Results from Agents and Implications for General EC.- EC Theory: A Unified Viewpoint.- Real Royal Road Functions for Constant Population Size.- Two Broad Classes of Functions for Which a No Free Lunch Result Does Not Hold.- Dimensionality Reduction via Genetic Value Clustering.- The Structure of Evolutionary Exploration: On Crossover, Buildings Blocks, and Estimation-Of-Distribution Algorithms.- The Virtual Gene Genetic Algorithm.- Quad Search and Hybrid Genetic Algorithms.- Distance between Populations.- The Underlying Similarity of Diversity Measures Used in Evolutionary Computation.- Implicit Parallelism.- Finding Building Blocks through Eigenstructure Adaptation.- A Specialized Island Model and Its Application in Multiobjective Optimization.- Adaptation of Length in a Nonstationary Environment.- Optimal Sampling and Speed-Up for Genetic Algorithms on the Sampled OneMax Problem.- Building-Block Identification by Simultaneity Matrix.- A Unified Framework for Metaheuristics.- The Hitting Set Problem and Evolutionary Algorithmic Techniques with ad-hoc Viruses (HEAT-V).- The Spatially-Dispersed Genetic Algorithm.- Non-universal Suffrage Selection Operators Favor Population Diversity in Genetic Algorithms.- Uniform Crossover Revisited: Maximum Disruption in Real-Coded GAs.- The Master-Slave Architecture for Evolutionary Computations Revisited.- Genetic Algorithms — Posters.- Using Adaptive Operators in Genetic Search.- A Kernighan-Lin Local Improvement Heuristic That Solves Some Hard Problems in Genetic Algorithms.- GA-Hardness Revisited.- Barrier Trees For Search Analysis.- A Genetic Algorithm as a Learning Method Based on Geometric Representations.- Solving Mastermind Using Genetic Algorithms.- Evolutionary Multimodal Optimization Revisited.- Integrated Genetic Algorithm with Hill Climbing for Bandwidth Minimization Problem.- A Fixed-Length Subset Genetic Algorithm for the p-Median Problem.- Performance Evaluation of a Parameter-Free Genetic Algorithm for Job-Shop Scheduling Problems.- SEPA: Structure Evolution and Parameter Adaptation in Feed-Forward Neural Networks.- Real-Coded Genetic Algorithm to Reveal Biological Significant Sites of Remotely Homologous Proteins.- Understanding EA Dynamics via Population Fitness Distributions.- Evolutionary Feature Space Transformation Using Type-Restricted Generators.- On the Locality of Representations.- New Subtour-Based Crossover Operator for the TSP.- Is a Self-Adaptive Pareto Approach Beneficial for Controlling Embodied Virtual Robots?.- A Genetic Algorithm for Energy Efficient Device Scheduling in Real-Time Systems.- Metropolitan Area Network Design Using GA Based on Hierarchical Linkage Identification.- Statistics-Based Adaptive Non-uniform Mutation for Genetic Algorithms.- Genetic Algorithm Design Inspired by Organizational Theory: Pilot Study of a Dependency Structure Matrix Driven Genetic Algorithm.- Are the “Best” Solutions to a Real Optimization Problem Always Found in the Noninferior Set? Evolutionary Algorithm for Generating Alternatives (EAGA).- Population Sizing Based on Landscape Feature.- Genetic Programming.- Structural Emergence with Order Independent Representations.- Identifying Structural Mechanisms in Standard Genetic Programming.- Visualizing Tree Structures in Genetic Programming.- What Makes a Problem GP-Hard? Validating a Hypothesis of Structural Causes.- Generative Representations for Evolving Families of Designs.- Evolutionary Computation Method for Promoter Site Prediction in DNA.- Convergence of Program Fitness Landscapes.- Multi-agent Learning of Heterogeneous Robots by Evolutionary Subsumption.- Population Implosion in Genetic Programming.- Methods for Evolving Robust Programs.- On the Avoidance of Fruitless Wraps in Grammatical Evolution.- Dense and Switched Modular Primitives for Bond Graph Model Design.- Dynamic Maximum Tree Depth.- Difficulty of Unimodal and Multimodal Landscapes in Genetic Programming.- Genetic Programming — Posters.- Ramped Half-n-Half Initialisation Bias in GP.- Improving Evolvability of Genetic Parallel Programming Using Dynamic Sample Weighting.- Enhancing the Performance of GP Using an Ancestry-Based Mate Selection Scheme.- A General Approach to Automatic Programming Using Occam’s Razor, Compression, and Self-Inspection.- Building Decision Tree Software Quality Classification Models Using Genetic Programming.- Evolving Petri Nets with a Genetic Algorithm.- Diversity in Multipopulation Genetic Programming.- An Encoding Scheme for Generating ?-Expressions in Genetic Programming.- AVICE: Evolving Avatar’s Movernent.- Learning Classifier Systems.- Evolving Multiple Discretizations with Adaptive Intervals for a Pittsburgh Rule-Based Learning Classifier System.- Limits in Long Path Learning with XCS.- Bounding the Population Size in XCS to Ensure Reproductive Opportunities.- Tournament Selection: Stable Fitness Pressure in XCS.- Improving Performance in Size-Constrained Extended Classifier Systems.- Designing Efficient Exploration with MACS: Modules and Function Approximation.- Estimating Classifier Generalization and Action’s Effect: A Minimalist Approach.- Towards Building Block Propagation in XCS: A Negative Result and Its Implications.- Learning Classifier Systems — Posters.- Data Classification Using Genetic Parallel Programming.- Dynamic Strategies in a Real-Time Strategy Game.- Using Raw Accuracy to Estimate Classifier Fitness in XCS.- Towards Learning Classifier Systems for Continuous-Valued Online Environments.- Real World Applications.- Artificial Immune System for Classification of Gene Expression Data.- Automatic Design Synthesis and Optimization of Component-Based Systems by Evolutionary Algorithms.- Studying the Advantages of a Messy Evolutionary Algorithm for Natural Language Tagging.- Optimal Elevator Group Control by Evolution Strategies.- A Methodology for Combining Symbolic Regression and Design of Experiments to Improve Empirical Model Building.- The General Yard Allocation Problem.- Connection Network and Optimization of Interest Metric for One-to-One Marketing.- Parameter Optimization by a Genetic Algorithm for a Pitch Tracking System.- Secret Agents Leave Big Footprints: How to Plant a Cryptographic Trapdoor, and Why You Might Not Get Away with It.- GenTree: An Interactive Genetic Algorithms System for Designing 3D Polygonal Tree Models.- Optimisation of Reaction Mechanisms for Aviation Fuels Using a Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm.- System-Level Synthesis of MEMS via Genetic Programming and Bond Graphs.- Congressional Districting Using a TSP-Based Genetic Algorithm.- Active Guidance for a Finless Rocket Using Neuroevolution.- Simultaneous Assembly Planning and Assembly System Design Using Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms.- Multi-FPGA Systems Synthesis by Means of Evolutionary Computation.- Genetic Algorithm Optimized Feature Transformation — A Comparison with Different Classifiers.- Web-Page Color Modification for Barrier-Free Color Vision with Genetic Algorithm.- Quantum-Inspired Evolutionary Algorithm-Based Face Verification.- Minimization of Sonic Boom on Supersonic Aircraft Using an Evolutionary Algorithm.- Optimizing the Order of Taxon Addition in Phylogenetic Tree Construction Using Genetic Algorithm.- Multicriteria Network Design Using Evolutionary Algorithm.- Control of a Flexible Manipulator Using a Sliding Mode Controller with Genetic Algorithm Tuned Manipulator Dimension.- Daily Stock Prediction Using Neuro-genetic Hybrids.- Finding the Optimal Gene Order in Displaying Microarray Data.- Learning Features for Object Recognition.- An Efficient Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for a Fixed Channel Assignment Problem with Limited Bandwidth.- Using Genetic Algorithms for Data Mining Optimization in an Educational Web-Based System.- Improved Image Halftoning Technique Using GAs with Concurrent Inter-block Evaluation.- Complex Function Sets Improve Symbolic Discriminant Analysis of Microarray Data.- GA-Based Inference of Euler Angles for Single Particle Analysis.- Mining Comprehensible Clustering Rules with an Evolutionary Algorithm.- Evolving Consensus Sequence for Multiple Sequence Alignment with a Genetic Algorithm.- A Linear Genetic Programming Approach to Intrusion Detection.- Genetic Algorithm for Supply Planning Optimization under Uncertain Demand.- Genetic Algorithms: A Fundamental Component of an Optimization Toolkit for Improved Engineering Designs.- Spatial Operators for Evolving Dynamic Bayesian Networks from Spatio-temporal Data.- An Evolutionary Approach for Molecular Docking.- Evolving Sensor Suites for Enemy Radar Detection.- Real World Applications — Posters.- Optimization of Spare Capacity in Survivable WDM Networks.- Partner Selection in Virtual Enterprises by Using Ant Colony Optimization in Combination with the Analytical Hierarchy Process.- Quadrilateral Mesh Smoothing Using a Steady State Genetic Algorithm.- Evolutionary Algorithms for Two Problems from the Calculus of Variations.- Genetic Algorithm Frequency Domain Optimization of an Anti-Resonant Electromechanical Controller.- Genetic Algorithm Optimization of a Filament Winding Process.- Circuit Bipartitioning Using Genetic Algorithm.- Multi-campaign Assignment Problem and Optimizing Lagrange Multipliers.- Grammatical Evolution for the Discovery of Petri Net Models of Complex Genetic Systems.- Evaluation of Parameter Sensitivity for Portable Embedded Systems through Evolutionary Techniques.- An Evolutionary Algorithm for the Joint Replenishment of Inventory with Interdependent Ordering Costs.- Benefits of Implicit Redundant Genetic Algorithms for Structural Damage Detection in Noisy Environments.- Multi-objective Traffic Signal Timing Optimization Using Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II.- Exploration of a Two Sided Rendezvous Search Problem Using Genetic Algorithms.- Taming a Flood with a T-CUP — Designing Flood-Control Structures with a Genetic Algorithm.- Assignment Copy Detection Using Neuro-genetic Hybrids.- Search Based Software Engineering.- Structural and Functional Sequence Test of Dynamic and State-Based Software with Evolutionary Algorithms.- Evolutionary Testing of Flag Conditions.- Predicate Expression Cost Functions to Guide Evolutionary Search for Test Data.- Extracting Test Sequences from a Markov Software Usage Model by ACO.- Using Genetic Programming to Improve Software Effort Estimation Based on General Data Sets.- The State Problem for Evolutionary Testing.- Modeling the Search Landscape of Metaheuristic Software Clustering Algorithms.- Search Based Software Engineering — Posters.- Search Based Transformations.- Finding Building Blocks for Software Clustering.