PROGRAM
Days: Wednesday, April 7th Thursday, April 8th Friday, April 9th
Wednesday, April 7th
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09:00-09:15 Session 1: Conference opening by SPECIES Society President
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Location: SPECIES YouTube Channel
09:15-09:30Break
09:30-11:20 Session 2A: EvoMUSART 1 - Image
Chair:
Location: Room A
09:30 | Evolving Neural Style Transfer Blends (abstract) |
09:55 | The Enigma of Complexity (abstract) PRESENTER: Jon McCormack |
10:20 | Evolving Image Enhancement Pipelines (abstract) PRESENTER: João Correia |
10:45 | A Swarm Grammar-Based Approach to Virtual World Generation (abstract) PRESENTER: Yasin Raies |
09:30-11:20 Session 2B: Late-Breaking Abstracts
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Location: Room B
09:30 | Distributed species-based genetic algorithm for reinforcement learning problems (abstract) PRESENTER: Anirudh Seth |
09:40 | Using a bio-inspired model to facilitate the ecosystem of data sharing in smart healthcare (abstract) PRESENTER: Yao Yao |
09:50 | Quantum fitness sharing in memetic algorithms for level design in Metroidvania games (abstract) PRESENTER: Alvaro Gutierrez |
10:00 | Sensitivity to Partial Lamarckism in a Memetic Algorithm for Constrained Portfolio Optimization (abstract) |
10:10 | Short-term effects of weight initialization functions in Deep NeuroEvolution (abstract) PRESENTER: Lucas Evangelista |
10:20 | Parameter control for the Plant Propagation Algorithm (abstract) PRESENTER: Daan van den Berg |
10:30 | A Dynamic Parameter for the Plant Propagation Algorithm (abstract) PRESENTER: Daan van den Berg |
10:40 | Beauty: A Machine-Microbial Artwork (abstract) PRESENTER: Carlos Castellanos |
10:50 | CLIP-Guided GAN Image Generation: An Artistic Exploration (abstract) PRESENTER: Amy Smith |
11:00 | Generating Music with Extreme Passages using GPT-2 (abstract) PRESENTER: Berker Banar |
09:30-11:20 Session 2C: EvoAPPS 1 - Parallel Systems & Robotics
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Location: Room C
09:30 | TensorGP - Genetic Programming Engine in TensorFlow (abstract) PRESENTER: Francisco Baeta |
09:55 | Co-optimising Robot Morphology and Controller in a Simulated Open-ended Environment (abstract) PRESENTER: Emma Hjellbrekke Stensby |
10:20 | Beyond Body Shape and Brain: Evolving the Sensory Apparatus of Voxel-based Soft Robots (abstract) PRESENTER: Andrea Ferigo |
10:45 | Automatic Modular Design of Behavior Trees for Robot Swarms with Communication Capabilites (abstract) PRESENTER: Jonas Kuckling |
11:10 | Event-driven multi-algorithm optimization: mixing Swarm and Evolutionary strategies (abstract) |
11:20-11:25Break
11:25-13:15 Session 3A: EvoMUSART 2 - Image
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Location: Room A
11:25 | Dissecting Neural Networks Filter Responses for Artistic Style Transfer (abstract) |
11:50 | Incremental Evolution of Stylized Images (abstract) |
12:15 | Network Bending: Expressive Manipulation of Deep Generative Models (abstract) PRESENTER: Terence Broad |
12:40 | Co-Creative Drawing with One-Shot Generative Models (abstract) PRESENTER: Sabine Wieluch |
11:25-13:15 Session 3B: EuroGP 1 - Methods
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Location: Room B
11:25 | On the Influence of Grammars on Crossover in Grammatical Evolution (abstract) |
11:50 | Mining Feature Relationships in Data (abstract) |
12:00 | Evofficient: Reproducing a Cartesian Genetic Programming Method (abstract) PRESENTER: Lorenz Wendlinger |
12:25 | Evolution of Complex Combinational Logic Circuits Using Grammatical Evolution with SystemVerilog (abstract) PRESENTER: Michael Tetteh |
12:50 | On the Generalizability of Programs Synthesized by Grammar-Guided Genetic Programming (abstract) |
11:25-13:15 Session 3C: EvoAPPS 2 - Evolutionary Machine Learning (i)
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Location: Room C
11:25 | Evolving Character-Level DenseNet Architectures using Genetic Programming (abstract) PRESENTER: Trevor Londt |
11:35 | Improved Crowding Distance in Multi-objective Optimization for Feature Selection in Classification (abstract) PRESENTER: Peng Wang |
12:00 | WILDA: Wide Learning of Diverse Architectures for Classification of Large Datasets (abstract) PRESENTER: Rui Cardoso |
12:25 | Optimising diversity in classifier ensembles of classification trees (abstract) PRESENTER: Carina Ivascu |
12:50 | Evolutionary Planning in Latent Space (abstract) PRESENTER: Rasmus Berg Palm |
13:00 | Utilizing the Untapped Potential of IndirectEncoding for Neural Networks with MetaLearning (abstract) PRESENTER: Adam Katona |
13:15-14:10Lunch Break
14:10-15:20 Session 4A: EvoCOP 1
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Location: Room A
14:10 | MATE: A Model-based Algorithm Tuning Engine (abstract) PRESENTER: Mohamed El Yafrani |
14:35 | Runtime analysis of the (mu+1)-EA on the Dynamic BinVal function (abstract) PRESENTER: Simone Riedi |
14:10-15:20 Session 4B: EuroGP 2 - Short talks
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Location: Room B
14:10 | Getting a Head Start on Program Synthesis with Genetic Programming (abstract) PRESENTER: Erik Hemberg |
14:20 | Incremental Evaluation of Genetic Programming (abstract) |
14:30 | Probabilistic Grammatical Evolution (abstract) PRESENTER: Jessica Mégane |
14:40 | Software Anti-patterns Detection under Uncertainty using a Possibilistic Evolutionary Approach (abstract) PRESENTER: Sofien Boutaib |
14:50 | Evolving allocation rules for beam search heuristics in assembly line balancing (abstract) PRESENTER: Marcus Ritt |
14:10-15:20 Session 4C: EvoAPPS 3 - Short talks
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Location: Room C
14:10 | Multi-objective workforce allocation in construction projects (abstract) PRESENTER: Andrew Iskandar |
14:20 | Automated, Explainable Rule Extraction from MAP-Elites archives (abstract) |
14:30 | Evaluating the Success-History based Adaptive Differential Evolution in the Protein Structure Prediction problem (abstract) PRESENTER: Pedro Narloch |
14:40 | Real Time Optimisation of Traffic Signals to Prioritise Public Transport (abstract) PRESENTER: Milan Wittpohl |
14:50 | A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm Approach for Optimizing Part Quality Aware Assembly Job Shop Scheduling Problems (abstract) PRESENTER: Michael H. Prince |
15:00 | On Restricting Real-Valued Genotypes in Evolutionary Algorithms (abstract) PRESENTER: Kyrre Glette |
15:20-15:25Break
15:25-16:55 Session 5A: EvoMUSART 3 - Best Paper Nominations
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Location: Room A
15:25 | "A Good Algorithm Does Not Steal - It Imitates": The Originality Report as a Means of Measuring When a Music Generation Algorithm Copies Too Much (abstract) PRESENTER: Zongyu Yin |
15:50 | Interactive, Efficient and Creative Image Generation Using Compositional Pattern-Producing Networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Erlend Gjesteland Ekern |
16:15 | Identification of Pure Painting Pigment using Machine Learning algorithms (abstract) PRESENTER: Ailin Chen |
15:25-16:55 Session 5B: EuroGP 3 - Hybrid & New framework
Chairs:
Ting Hu and Eric Medvet
Location: Room B
15:25 | Progressive Insular Cooperative GP (abstract) PRESENTER: Karina Brotto Rebuli |
15:50 | Inclusive Genetic Programming (abstract) PRESENTER: Francesco Marchetti |
16:15 | Quality Diversity Genetic Programming for Learning Decision Tree Ensembles (abstract) PRESENTER: Stephen Boisvert |
15:25-16:55 Session 5C: EvoAPPS 4 - Digital Healthcare & Personalized Medicine
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Location: Room C
15:25 | A multi-objective multi-type facility location problem for the delivery of personalised medicine (abstract) |
15:50 | Modelling Asthma Patients Responsiveness to Treatment Using Feature Selection and Evolutionary Computation (abstract) PRESENTER: Alberto Tonda |
16:15 | Bayesian Networks for Mood Prediction Using Unobstrusive Ecological Momentary Assesments (abstract) PRESENTER: Margarita Alejandra Rebolledo Coy |
16:55-17:00Break
Thursday, April 8th
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09:00-11:10 Session 8A: EvoMUSART 4 - Music & Sound
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Location: Room A
09:00 | Auralization of three-dimensional cellular automata (abstract) PRESENTER: Yuta Kariyado |
09:25 | The Simulated Emergence of Chord Function (abstract) PRESENTER: Yui Uehara |
09:50 | A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Approach to Identify Relevant Audio Features for Music Segmentation (abstract) PRESENTER: Igor Vatolkin |
10:15 | SerumRNN: A White-box Audio VST Effect Programming System (abstract) PRESENTER: Christopher Mitcheltree |
10:40 | Parameter tuning for wavelet-based sound event detection using Neural Networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Pallav Raval |
09:00-11:10 Session 8B: EvoCOP 2
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Location: Room B
09:00 | An Artificial Immune System for Black Box Test Case Selection (abstract) PRESENTER: Lukas Rosenbauer |
09:25 | On Hybrid Heuristics for Steiner Trees on the Plane with Obstacles (abstract) PRESENTER: Victor Parque |
09:50 | Tabu-driven Quantum Neighborhood Samplers (abstract) PRESENTER: Charles Moussa |
10:15 | A Novel Ant Colony Optimization Strategy for the Quantum Circuit Compilation Problem (abstract) PRESENTER: Marco Baioletti |
09:00-11:10 Session 8C: EvoAPPS 5 - Best paper nominations
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Location: Room C
09:00 | EA-based ASV Trajectory Planner for Pollution Detection in Lentic Waters (abstract) PRESENTER: Gonzalo Carazo-Barbero |
09:25 | Towards Feature-Based Performance Regression Using Trajectory Data (abstract) PRESENTER: Anja Jankovic |
09:50 | A NEAT Visualisation of Neuroevolution Trajectories (abstract) PRESENTER: Stefano Sarti |
10:15 | Improving Search Efficiency and Diversity of Solutions in Multiobjective Binary Optimization by Using Metaheuristics plus Integer Linear Programming (abstract) PRESENTER: Miguel Ángel Domínguez Ríos |
11:10-11:30Break
11:30-13:15 Session 9A: EvoAPPS 6 - Games & Deep Bio-inspired Algorithms
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Location: Room A
11:30 | Combining Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms with deep generative models towards focused molecular design (abstract) PRESENTER: Tiago Sousa |
11:55 | A Profile-Based ‘GrEvolutionary’ Hearthstone Agent (abstract) PRESENTER: Antonio Mora |
12:20 | Playing with Dynamic Systems - Battling Swarms in Virtual Reality (abstract) PRESENTER: Johannes Büttner |
12:45 | EvoCraft: A New Challenge for Open-Endedness (abstract) PRESENTER: Djordje Grbic |
12:55 | Continuous Ant-Based Neural Topology Search (abstract) PRESENTER: Abdelrahman Elsaid |
13:05 | EDM-DRL: Toward Stable Reinforcement Learning through Ensembled Directed Mutation (abstract) PRESENTER: Michael H. Prince |
11:30-13:15 Session 9B: EvoCOP 3
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Location: Room B
11:30 | Flowshop NEH-based heuristic recommendation (abstract) PRESENTER: Lucas M. Pavelski |
11:55 | An Improvement Heuristic Based on Variable Neighborhood Search for a Dynamic Orienteering Problem (abstract) PRESENTER: Hoang Thanh Le |
12:20 | A Heuristic Algorithm for School Bus Routing with Bus Stop Selection (abstract) PRESENTER: Monique Sciortino |
12:45 | Hybrid Heuristic and Metaheuristic for Solving Electric Vehicle Charging Scheduling Problem (abstract) PRESENTER: Imene Zaidi |
11:30-13:15 Session 9C: EvoAPPS 7 - Image Analysis & Signal Processing
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Location: Room C
11:30 | RDE-OP:A Region-based Differential Evolution Algorithm Incorporation Opposition-Based Learning for Optimising the Learning Process of Multi-Layer Neural Networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad |
11:55 | Lateralized Approach for Robustness Against Attacks in Emotion Categorization from Images (abstract) PRESENTER: Harisu Abdullahi Shehu |
12:20 | EDA-based optimization of blow--off valve positions for centrifugal compressor systems (abstract) |
12:30 | Estimation of Grain-level Residual Stresses in a Quenched Cylindrical Sample of Aluminum Alloy AA5083 using Genetic Programming (abstract) PRESENTER: Laura Millán García |
12:40 | 3D-2D Registration using X-ray Simulation and CMA-ES (abstract) PRESENTER: Tianci Wen |
13:15-14:15Lunch Break
14:15-16:00 Session 10A: EvoMUSART 5 - Music & Sound
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Location: Room A
14:15 | SyVMO: Synchronous Variable Markov Oracle for modeling and predicting multi-part musical structures dependencies (abstract) PRESENTER: Nádia Carvalho |
14:40 | Sculpture Inspired Musical Composition, One Possible Approach (abstract) PRESENTER: Francisco Braga |
15:05 | Raga Recognition in Indian Classical Music using Deep Learning (abstract) PRESENTER: Devansh Shah |
15:30 | Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network, via Transfer Learning, for Traditional Scottish Music Generation (abstract) PRESENTER: Francesco Marchetti |
14:15-16:00 Session 10B: EvoCOP 4 Best Paper Nominations
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Location: Room B
14:15 | Decomposition-based Multi-objective Landscape Features and Automated Algorithm Selection (abstract) PRESENTER: Raphaël Cosson |
14:40 | Hybridization of Racing Methods with Evolutionary Operators for Simulation Optimization of Traffic Lights Programs (abstract) PRESENTER: Christian Cintrano |
15:05 | Stagnation Detection with Randomized Local Search (abstract) PRESENTER: Amirhossein Rajabi |
15:30 | Symmetry Breaking for Voting Mechanisms (abstract) PRESENTER: Andrew Sutton |
14:15-16:00 Session 10C: EvoAPPS 8 - Evolutionary Machine Learning (ii)
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Location: Room C
14:15 | Demonstrating the Evolution of GANs through t-SNE (abstract) PRESENTER: Victor Costa |
14:40 | Evaluating Models with Dynamic Sampling Holdout (abstract) PRESENTER: Celio Henrique Nogueira Larcher Junior |
15:05 | On the Effects of Absumption for XCS with Continuous-Valued Inputs (abstract) PRESENTER: Alexander Wagner |
15:30 | Transfer Learning for Automated Test Case Prioritization using XCSF (abstract) PRESENTER: Lukas Rosenbauer |
16:00-16:15Break
16:15-18:00 Session 11A: EvoMUSART 6 - Music & Sound
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Location: Room A
16:15 | Chord Embeddings: Analyzing What They Capture and Their Role for Next Chord Prediction and Artist Attribute Prediction (abstract) PRESENTER: Allison Lahnala |
16:40 | A Fusion of Deep and Shallow Learning to Predict Genres Based on Instrument and Timbre Features (abstract) PRESENTER: Igor Vatolkin |
17:05 | Genre Recognition from Symbolic Music with CNNs (abstract) PRESENTER: Edmund Dervakos |
17:30 | Creating a Digital Mirror of Creative Practice (abstract) |
17:40 | From Music to Image, a Computational Creativity Approach (abstract) PRESENTER: Luís Aleixo |
17:50 | An Application for Evolutionary Music Composition using Autoencoders (abstract) PRESENTER: Robert Neil McArthur |
16:15-18:00 Session 11B: EuroGP 4 Best Paper Nominations
Chairs:
Ting Hu and Nuno Lourenço
Location: Room B
16:15 | Regenerating Soft Robots through Neural Cellular Automata (abstract) PRESENTER: Kazuya Horibe |
16:40 | Exploring the automatic design of U-Nets applied to segmentation problems (abstract) PRESENTER: Ricardo Henrique Remes de Lima |
17:05 | Towards incorporating Human Knowledge in Fuzzy Pattern Tree Evolution (abstract) PRESENTER: Aidan Murphy |
17:30 | Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search Supporting Approximate Multipliers (abstract) PRESENTER: Michal Pinos |
16:15-18:00 Session 11C: EvoAPPS 9 - Evolutionary Machine Learning (iii)
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Location: Room C
16:15 | Towards Explainable Exploratory Landscape Analysis: Extreme Feature Selection for Classifying BBOB Functions (abstract) PRESENTER: Quentin Renau |
16:40 | Desirable Objective Ranges in Preference-based Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (abstract) PRESENTER: Sandra González-Gallardo |
17:05 | Adaptive Covariance Pattern Search (abstract) |
17:30 | Salp Swarm Optimization Search Based Feature Selection for Enhanced Phishing Websites Detection (abstract) PRESENTER: Ruba Abu Khurma |
Friday, April 9th
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09:45-11:30 Session 13A: EvoMUSART 7 - Evolutionary Art
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Location: Room A
09:45 | Exploring the Effect of Sampling Strategy on Movement Generation with Generative Neural Networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Benedikte Wallace |
10:10 | Axial Generation: A Concretism-inspired Method for Synthesizing Highly Varied Artworks (abstract) PRESENTER: Edward Easton |
10:35 | Aesthetic Evaluation of Cellular Automata Configurations using Spatial Complexity and Kolmogorov Complexity (abstract) |
11:00 | Mixed-Initiative Level Design with RL Brush (abstract) PRESENTER: Omar Delarosa |
11:10 | “What is human?” A Turing Test for artistic creativity. (abstract) PRESENTER: Antonio Daniele |
09:45-11:30 Session 13B: EvoAPPS 10 - Misc
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Location: Room B
09:45 | An Experimental Study on the Effects of Weight Initialization and Weight Inheritance on Neuroevolution (abstract) PRESENTER: Zimeng Lyu |
10:10 | Improving Neuroevolution Using Island Extinction and Repopulation (abstract) PRESENTER: Zimeng Lyu |
10:35 | Effective Universal Unrestricted Adversarial Attacks using a MOE Approach (abstract) PRESENTER: Alina-Elena Baia |
11:00 | Deep Optimisation: Multi-Scale Evolution by Inducing and Searching in Deep Representations (abstract) PRESENTER: Jamie Caldwell |
09:45-11:30 Session 13C: EvoAPPS 11 - Sustainability & Development
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Location: Room C
09:45 | Evolutionary Grain-Mixing to Improve Profitability in Farming Winter Wheat (abstract) PRESENTER: Md Asaduzzaman Noor |
10:10 | Evolutionary Algorithms for Roughness Coefficient Estimation in River Flow Analyses (abstract) PRESENTER: Valentino Santucci |
10:35 | A novel evolutionary approach for IoT-based water contaminant detection (abstract) PRESENTER: Luca Gerevini |
11:00 | Generating Duplex Routes for Robust Bus Transport Network by Improved Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm based on Decomposition (abstract) PRESENTER: Sho Kajihara |
11:30-12:00Break
13:00-13:30 Session 15: Conference closing, best paper awards & general announcements
Location: SPECIES YouTube Channel
13:30-14:30Lunch Break