Artificial Evolution: 8th International Conference, Evolution Artificielle, EA 2007, Tours, France, October 29-31, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

Luis Da Costa, Jacques-André Landry, Yan Levasseur (auth.), Nicolas Monmarché, El-Ghazali Talbi, Pierre Collet, Marc Schoenauer, Evelyne Lutton (eds.)3540793046, 9783540793045

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, EA 2007, held in Tours, France in October 2007.

The 27 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers cover all aspects of artificial evolution: genetic programming, swarm intelligence, combinatorial and multi-objective optimization, theory in genetic algorithms and evolutionary systems, as well as applications of evolutionary algorithms.

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Treating Noisy Data Sets with Relaxed Genetic Programming….Pages 1-12
Cost-Benefit Investigation of a Genetic-Programming Hyperheuristic….Pages 13-24
Automatic Design of Vision-Based Obstacle Avoidance Controllers Using Genetic Programming….Pages 25-36
Generating SAT Local-Search Heuristics Using a GP Hyper-Heuristic Framework….Pages 37-49
Magnetic Resonance Image Segmentation Based on Two-Dimensional Exponential Entropy and a Parameter Free PSO….Pages 50-61
Mimetic Variations on Stigmergic Swarm Paintings….Pages 62-72
Minimal and Necessary Conditions for the Emergence of Species-Specific Recognition Patterns….Pages 73-86
Artificial Ants for the Optimization of Virtual Keyboard Arrangement for Disabled People….Pages 87-99
Self-organization and Evolution Combined to Address the Vehicle Routing Problem….Pages 100-111
An Evolutionary Algorithm for the Block Stacking Problem….Pages 112-123
A Study of Evaluation Functions for the Graph K-Coloring Problem….Pages 124-135
Genetic Branch-and-Bound or Exact Genetic Algorithm?….Pages 136-147
Aerodynamic Topology Optimisation Using an Implicit Representation and a Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm….Pages 148-159
Direct and Indirect Representations for Evolutionary Design of Objects….Pages 160-171
Adaptive and Assortative Mating Scheme for Evolutionary Multi-Objective Algorithms….Pages 172-183
The Cooperative Royal Road: Avoiding Hitchhiking ….Pages 184-195
Conditioning, Halting Criteria and Choosing λ ….Pages 196-206
Log-Linear Convergence and Optimal Bounds for the (1 + 1)-ES….Pages 207-218
Evolution Strategies for Laser Pulse Compression….Pages 219-230
Fully Three-Dimensional Tomographic Evolutionary Reconstruction in Nuclear Medicine….Pages 231-242
A Study of Crossover Operators for Gene Selection of Microarray Data….Pages 243-254
Searching for Glider Guns in Cellular Automata: Exploring Evolutionary and Other Techniques….Pages 255-265
A Genetic Algorithm for Generating Improvised Music….Pages 266-277
Unsupervised Learning of Echo State Networks: A Case Study in Artificial Embryogeny….Pages 278-290
Enhanced Genetic Algorithm with Guarantee of Feasibility for the Unit Commitment Problem….Pages 291-302
On the Design of Adaptive Control Strategies for Evolutionary Algorithms….Pages 303-315
Improvement of Intelligent Optimization by an Experience Feedback Approach….Pages 316-327
Back Matter….Pages –