Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XII: 12th International Conference, Taormina, Italy, September 1-5, 2012, Proceedings, Part I

Front Matter....Pages -
Convergence of the IGO-Flow of Isotropic Gaussian Distributions on Convex Quadratic Problems....Pages 1-10
Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Island Models for the Set Cover Problem....Pages 11-20
Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming....Pages 21-31
Efficient Negative Selection Algorithms by Sampling and Approximate Counting....Pages 32-41
Convergence of the Continuous Time Trajectories of Isotropic Evolution Strategies on Monotonic $\\mathcal C^2$ -composite Functions....Pages 42-51
A Parameterized Runtime Analysis of Simple Evolutionary Algorithms for Makespan Scheduling....Pages 52-61
On Algorithm-Dependent Boundary Case Identification for Problem Classes....Pages 62-71
Cumulative Step-Size Adaptation on Linear Functions....Pages 72-81
On the Behaviour of the (1, λ )- σ SA-ES for a Constrained Linear Problem....Pages 82-91
An Empirical Evaluation of O(1) Steepest Descent for NK-Landscapes....Pages 92-101
Experimental Supplements to the Computational Complexity Analysis of Genetic Programming for Problems Modelling Isolated Program Semantics....Pages 102-112
ACO Beats EA on a Dynamic Pseudo-Boolean Function....Pages 113-122
Runtime Analysis of Simple Interactive Evolutionary Biobjective Optimization Algorithms....Pages 123-132
Parsimony Pressure versus Multi-objective Optimization for Variable Length Representations....Pages 133-142
An Evolutionary and Graph-Based Method for Image Segmentation....Pages 143-152
Real-Time GPU Based Road Sign Detection and Classification....Pages 153-162
Acceleration of Evolutionary Image Filter Design Using Coevolution in Cartesian GP....Pages 163-172
Transfer Learning, Soft Distance-Based Bias, and the Hierarchical BOA....Pages 173-183
Reinforcement Learning with N-tuples on the Game Connect-4....Pages 184-194
Efficient Sampling and Handling of Variance in Tuning Data Mining Models....Pages 195-205
A Spatial EA Framework for Parallelizing Machine Learning Methods....Pages 206-215
Competing Mutating Agents for Bayesian Network Structure Learning....Pages 216-225
A Meta-learning Prediction Model of Algorithm Performance for Continuous Optimization Problems....Pages 226-235
Pruning GP-Based Classifier Ensembles by Bayesian Networks....Pages 236-245
A Multi-parent Search Operator for Bayesian Network Building....Pages 246-255
Enhancing Learning Capabilities by XCS with Best Action Mapping....Pages 256-265
Using Expert Knowledge to Guide Covering and Mutation in a Michigan Style Learning Classifier System to Detect Epistasis and Heterogeneity....Pages 266-275
On Measures to Build Linkage Trees in LTGA....Pages 276-285
Evolvability Analysis of the Linkage Tree Genetic Algorithm....Pages 286-295
Alternative Restart Strategies for CMA-ES....Pages 296-305
Are State-of-the-Art Fine-Tuning Algorithms Able to Detect a Dummy Parameter?....Pages 306-315
Compressed Network Complexity Search....Pages 316-326
Single Node Genetic Programming on Problems with Side Effects....Pages 327-336
Generalized Compressed Network Search....Pages 337-346
Analyzing Module Usage in Grammatical Evolution....Pages 347-356
On the Anytime Behavior of IPOP-CMA-ES....Pages 357-366
HappyCat – A Simple Function Class Where Well-Known Direct Search Algorithms Do Fail....Pages 367-376
Differential Gene Expression with Tree-Adjunct Grammars....Pages 377-386
Analysing the Effects of Diverse Operators in a Genetic Programming System....Pages 387-396
Quantitative Analysis of Locally Geometric Semantic Crossover....Pages 397-406
Length Scale for Characterising Continuous Optimization Problems....Pages 407-416
Analyzing the Behaviour of Population-Based Algorithms Using Rayleigh Distribution....Pages 417-427
Variable Transformations in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms....Pages 428-437
Controlling Overfitting in Symbolic Regression Based on a Bias/Variance Error Decomposition....Pages 438-447
On Spectral Invariance of Randomized Hessian and Covariance Matrix Adaptation Schemes....Pages 448-457
Variable Neighborhood Search and GRASP for Three-Layer Hierarchical Ring Network Design....Pages 458-467
Extracting Key Gene Regulatory Dynamics for the Direct Control of Mechanical Systems....Pages 468-477
An Evolutionary Optimization Approach for Bulk Material Blending Systems....Pages 478-488
Study of Cancer Hallmarks Relevance Using a Cellular Automaton Tumor Growth Model....Pages 489-499
Between Selfishness and Altruism: Fuzzy Nash–Berge-Zhukovskii Equilibrium....Pages 500-509
A Spanning Tree-Based Encoding of the MAX CUT Problem for Evolutionary Search....Pages 510-518
A Hybrid Approach to Piecewise Modelling of Biochemical Systems....Pages 519-528
An Empirical Comparison of CMA-ES in Dynamic Environments....Pages 529-538
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