PROGRAM
Days: Wednesday, April 15th Thursday, April 16th Friday, April 17th
Wednesday, April 15th
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09:30-09:45 Conference opening by SPECIES Society President Marc Schoenauer
Location: SPECIES YouTube Channel
09:45-10:45 Session 1: Plenary invited talk: José Antonio Lozano - University of the Basque Country, Spain – The essence of combinatorial optimization problems
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Location: SPECIES YouTube Channel
11:10-13:20 Session 2A: EuroGP 1
Methods
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Location: Room A
| 11:10 | Hessian Complexity Measure for Genetic Programming-based Imputation Predictor Selection in Symbolic Regression with Incomplete Data (abstract) |
| 11:35 | Comparing Genetic Programming Approaches for Non-Functional Genetic Improvement (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Time Control or Size Control? Reducing Complexity and Improving Accuracy of Genetic Programming Models (abstract) |
| 12:25 | Is k Nearest Neighbours Regression Better than GP? (abstract) |
11:10-13:20 Session 2B: EvoMUSART 1 - Evolutionary art
Evolutionary art
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Location: Room B
| 11:10 | Emerging Technology System Evolution (abstract) |
| 11:35 | Portraits of No One: An Interactive Installation (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Adapting and Enhancing Evolutionary Art for Casual Creation (abstract) |
| 12:25 | Coevolving Artistic Images Using OMNIREP (abstract) |
| 12:50 | Comparing Fuzzy Rule Based Approaches for Music Genre Classification (abstract) |
| 13:00 | Emulation Games. See and Be Seen, an Subjective Approach to Analog Computational Neuroscience (abstract) |
11:10-13:20 Session 2C: EvoAPPS 1 Short talks
Short talks
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Location: Room C
| 11:10 | Iterated Granular Neighborhood Algorithm forthe Taxi Sharing Problem (abstract) |
| 11:20 | A fast, scalable meta-heuristic for network slicing under traffic uncertainty (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Designing cable-stayed bridges with Genetic Algorithms. (abstract) |
| 11:40 | Social Learning vs Self-teaching in a Multi-agent Neural Network System (abstract) |
| 11:50 | EvoDynamic: a framework for the evolution of generally represented dynamical systems and its application to criticality (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Automatic rule extraction from access rules using Genetic Programming (abstract) |
| 12:10 | Finding behavioural patterns among League of Legends players through Hidden Markov Models (abstract) |
| 12:20 | Security Risk Optimization for Multi-Cloud Applications (abstract) |
| 12:30 | Using Skill Rating as Fitness on the Evolution of GANs (abstract) |
| 12:40 | Community Detection in Attributed Graphs with Differential Evolution (abstract) |
| 12:50 | Accelerated Design of HIFU Treatment Plans Using Island-based Evolutionary Strategy (abstract) |
14:30-16:20 Session 3A: EuroGP2
Short talks
Chairs:
Ting Hu and Eric Medvet
Location: Room A
| 14:30 | Guided Subtree Selection for Genetic Operators in Genetic Programming for Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling (abstract) |
| 14:40 | Investigating the Use of Geometric Semantic Operators in Vectorial Genetic Programming (abstract) |
| 14:50 | Automatically Evolving Lookup Tables for Function Approximation (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Ensemble Genetic Programming (abstract) |
| 15:10 | Benchmarking manifold learning methods on a large collection of datasets (abstract) |
| 15:20 | Classification of Autism Genes using Network Science and Linear Genetic Programming (abstract) |
14:30-16:20 Session 3B: EvoMUSART 2 Music & sound
Music & sound
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Location: Room B
| 14:30 | GenImpro: An Evolutionary Model For Musical Improvisation (abstract) |
| 14:55 | Fusion of Hilbert-Huang Transform and Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Predominant Musical Instruments Recognition (abstract) |
| 15:20 | Genetic Reverb: Synthesizing Artificial Reverberant Fields Via Genetic Algorithms (abstract) |
14:30-16:20 Session 3C: EvoAPPS 2
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Location: Room C
| 14:30 | What is Your MOVE: Modeling Adversarial Network Environments (abstract) |
| 14:55 | Modelling the Search Process of Population-based Algorithms in Continuous Optimisation (abstract) |
| 15:20 | On the sampling of all basins of attraction of multimodal functions (abstract) |
16:40-18:00 Session 4A: Late-Breaking Abstracts
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Location: Room A
| 16:40 | A Multi-strategy LSHADE Algorithm and its Applications on Temporal Alignment (abstract) |
| 16:50 | From Business Curated Products to Algorithmically Generated (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Parallel Microevolutionary Genetic Algorithm for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (abstract) |
| 17:10 | Plant Propagation & Hard Hamiltonian Graphs (abstract) |
| 17:20 | Plant Propagation Parameterization: Offspring & Population Size (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Simplified Paintings-from-Polygons is NP-Hard (abstract) |
16:40-18:00 Session 4B: EvoMUSART 3 - Image
Image
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Location: Room B
| 16:40 | A deep learning neural network for classifying good and bad photos (abstract) |
| 17:05 | Controlling Self-Organization in Generative Creative Systems (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Quantum Zentanglement: Combining Picbreeder and Wave Function Collapse to Create Zentangles (abstract) |
16:40-18:00 Session 4C: EvoAPPS 3 Paralel and distributed systems
Paralel and distributed systems
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Location: Room C
| 16:40 | An Event-based Architecture for Cross-Breed Multi-population Bio-inspired Optimization Algorithms (abstract) |
| 17:05 | A MIMD interpreter for Genetic Programming (abstract) |
| 17:30 | Using evolutionary algorithms for server hardening via the moving target defense technique (abstract) |
Thursday, April 16th
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09:30-11:10 Session 6A: EvoAPPS 5 Personalised medicine and healthcare
Personalised medicine and healthcare
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Location: Room A
| 09:30 | Using Genetic Algorithms for the prediction of cognitive impairments (abstract) |
| 09:55 | Differential Evolution Multi-Objective for Tertiary Protein Structure Prediction (abstract) |
| 10:20 | Short and Medium Term Blood Glucose Prediction using Multi-objective Grammatical Evolution (abstract) |
| 10:45 | Multiobjective Optimization of a Targeted Vaccination Scheme in the Presence of Non-diagnosed Cases (abstract) |
09:30-11:10 Session 6B: EvoMUSART 4 Best Paper Nominations
Best Paper Nominations
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Location: Room B
| 09:30 | Understanding Aesthetic Evaluation with Deep Learning (abstract) |
| 09:55 | Objective Evaluation of Tonal Fitness for Chord Progressions (abstract) |
| 10:20 | An aesthetic-based fitness measure and a framework for guidance of evolutionary design in architecture (abstract) |
09:30-11:10 Session 6C: EvoAPPS 4 Evolutionary Machine Learning (i)
Evolutionary Machine Learning (i)
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Location: Room C
| 09:30 | A Local Search with a Surrogate Assisted Option for Instance Reduction (abstract) |
| 09:55 | Evolutionary Latent Space Exploration of Generative Adversarial Networks (abstract) |
| 10:20 | Evolution of Scikit-Learn Pipelines with Dynamic Structured Grammatical Evolution (abstract) |
| 10:45 | A Greedy Iterative Layered Framework for Training Feed Forward Neural Networks (abstract) |
11:30-13:15 Session 7A: EvoAPPS 7
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Location: Room A
| 11:30 | A Local Search for Numerical Optimisation based on Covariance Matrix Diagonalisation (abstract) |
| 11:55 | Using evolution to design modular robots: An empirical approach to select module designs (abstract) |
| 12:20 | Evolving-controllers versus learning-controllers for morphologically evolvable robots (abstract) |
| 12:45 | Locating Odour Sources with Geometric Syntactic Genetic Programming (abstract) |
11:30-13:15 Session 7B: EvoCOP 1
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Location: Room B
| 11:30 | Fitness Landscape Analysis of Automated Machine Learning Search Spaces (abstract) |
| 11:55 | Cooperative Parallel SAT Local Search with Path Relinking (abstract) |
| 12:20 | An algebraic approach for the search space of permutations with repetition (abstract) |
| 12:45 | The Local Optima Level in Chemotherapy Schedule Optimisation (abstract) |
11:30-13:15 Session 7C: EvoAPPS 6 Evolutionary Machine Learning (ii)
Evolutionary Machine Learning (ii)
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Location: Room C
| 11:30 | Ant-based Neural Topology Search (ANTS) for Optimizing Recurrent Networks (abstract) |
| 11:55 | Neuro-Evolutionary Transfer Learning through Structural Adaptation (abstract) |
14:15-16:00 Session 8A: EuroGP 3
Applications and Hybrids
Chairs:
Ting Hu and Nuno Lourenço
Location: Room A
| 14:15 | Detection of Frailty using Genetic Programming : The Case of Older People in Piedmont, Italy (abstract) |
| 14:40 | Seeding Grammars in Grammatical Evolution to Improve Search Based Software Testing (abstract) |
| 15:05 | Incremental Evolution and Development of Deep Artificial Neural Networks (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Optimising Optimisers with Push GP (abstract) |
14:15-16:00 Session 8B: EvoCOP 2
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Location: Room B
| 14:15 | On the Combined Impact of Population Size and Sub-problem Selection in MOEA/D (abstract) |
| 14:40 | MILPIBEA: Algorithm for Multi-objective Features Selection in (Evolving) Software Product Lines (abstract) |
| 15:05 | A comparison of genetic representations for multi-objective shortest path problems on multigraphs (abstract) |
14:15-16:00 Session 8C: EvoAPPS 8 Best Paper Nominations
Best Paper Nominations
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Location: Room C
| 14:15 | Testing hybrid computational intelligence algorithms for general game playing (abstract) |
| 14:40 | An Empirical Exploration of Deep Recurrent Connections Using Neuro-Evolution (abstract) |
| 15:05 | Optimizing the Hyperparameters of a Mixed Integer Linear Programming Solver to Speed Up Electric Vehicle Charging Control (abstract) |
16:20-18:00 Session 9A: EuroGP 4 Best Paper Nominations
Best Paper Session
Chairs:
Ting Hu and Nuno Lourenço
Location: Room A
| 16:20 | Challenges of Program Synthesis with Grammatical Evolution (abstract) |
| 16:45 | SGP-DT: Semantic Genetic Programming Based on Dynamic Targets (abstract) |
| 17:10 | An Evolutionary View on Reversible Shift-invariant Transformations (abstract) |
| 17:35 | Effect of Parent Selection Methods on Modularity (abstract) |
16:20-18:00 Session 9B: EvoCOP 3
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Location: Room B
| 16:20 | Genetic Programming with Adaptive Search Based on the Frequency of Features for Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling (abstract) |
| 16:45 | A Grouping Genetic Algorithm for Multi Depot Pickup and Delivery Problems with Time Windows and Heterogeneous Vehicles (abstract) |
| 17:10 | A Group Genetic Algorithm for Resource Allocation in Container-based Clouds (abstract) |
| 17:35 | Optimizing prices and periods in time-of-use electricity tariff design using bilevel programming (abstract) |
16:20-18:00 Session 9C: EvoAPPS 9
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Location: Room C
| 16:20 | Particle Swarm Optimization: A Wrapper-based Feature Selection Method for Ransomware Detection and Classification (abstract) |
| 16:45 | Simulation-driven multi-objective evolution for traffic light optimization (abstract) |
| 17:10 | A Decomposition-Based Evolutionary Algorithm with Adaptive Weight Vectors for Multi- and Many-objective Optimization (abstract) |
| 17:35 | Automatic generation of adversarial metamorphic malware using MAP-Elites (abstract) |
18:00-20:00 Session 10
Second Poster Session
Friday, April 17th
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09:00-10:00 Session 11
Early poster session
10:00-11:30 Session 12A: EvoAPPS 10 Deep Bioinspired Algorithms
Deep Bioinspired Algorithms
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Location: Room A
| 10:00 | Evolving Instinctive Behaviour in Resource-Constrained Autonomous Agents Using Grammatical Evolution (abstract) |
| 10:25 | An Adversarial Optimization Approach for the Development of Robust Controllers (abstract) |
| 10:50 | Fake news detection using time series and user features classification (abstract) |
10:00-11:30 Session 12B: EvoCOP 4
Best Paper Session
Location: Room B
| 10:00 | Dynamic Compartmental Models for Large Multi-objective Landscapes and Performance Estimation (abstract) |
| 10:25 | A Beam Search Approach to the Traveling Tournament Problem (abstract) |
| 10:55 | The Univariate Marginal Distribution Algorithm Copes Well With Deception and Epistasis (abstract) |
10:00-11:30 Session 12C: EvoAPPS 11 Games
Games
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Location: Room C
| 10:00 | Efficient Heuristic Policy Optimisation for a Challenging Strategic Card Game (abstract) |
| 10:25 | Learning the Designer's Preferences to Drive Evolution (abstract) |
| 10:50 | EvoCluster: An Open-Source Nature-Inspired Optimization Clustering Framework in Python (abstract) |
12:00-13:00 Session 13: Plenary invited talk: Roberto Serra - University degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy - Dynamically critical networks
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Location: SPECIES YouTube Channel