Artificial Evolution: 6th International Conference, Evolution Artificielle, EA 2003, Marseilles, France, October 27-30, 2003, Revised Selected Papers / Edition 1

by Pierre Liardet, Pierre Collet, Cyril Fonlupt, Evelyne Lutton, Marc Schoenauer

Overview

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Artificial Evolution, EA 2003, held in Marseilles, France in October 2003.

The 32 revised full papers presented were carefully selected and improved during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on theoretical issues, algorithmic issues, applications, implementation issues, genetic programming, coevolution and agent systems, artificial life, and cellular automata.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540215233
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	06/24/2004
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #2936
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	412
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Theoretical Issues.- From Royal Road to Epistatic Road for Variable Length Evolution Algorithm.- Functional Dependency and Degeneracy: Detailed Analysis of the GAuGE System.- A Study of the Effects of Dimensionality on Shastic Hill Climbers and Estimation of Distribution Algorithms.- Evolutionary Search for Binary Strings with Low Aperiodic Auto-correlations.- Order Statistics in Artificial Evolution.- Evolutionary Markov Chain Monte Carlo.- Algorithmic Issues.- A Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm for CSP.- Optimising Graph Partitions Using Parallel Evolution.- Recombination Operators for Satisfiability Problems.- Recombination and Self-Adaptation in Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms.- Applications.- Automatic Optical Fiber Alignment System Using Genetic Algorithms.- Large-Scale Scheduling of Casting Sequences Using a Customized Genetic Algorithm.- Evolutionary Mining for Image Classification Rules.- Ant Algorithm for Detection of Retentive Structures in Coastal Waters.- Air Traffic Controller Keyboard Optimization by Artificial Evolution.- Post Docking Filtering Using Cartesian Genetic Programming.- Implementation Issues.- GUIDE: Unifying Evolutionary Engines through a Graphical User Interface.- ParaDisEO-Based Design of Parallel and Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms.- A Coarse-Grained Parallel Genetic Algorithm Employing Cluster Analysis for Multi-modal Numerical Optimisation.- Genetic Programming.- A Study of Diversity in Multipopulation Genetic Programming.- Self-Improvement to Control Code Growth in Genetic Programming.- Exploring Overfitting in Genetic Programming.- Coevolution and Agent Systems.- An Agent Model for First Price and Second Price Private Value Auctions.- A Clustering Based Niching EA for Multimodal Search Spaces.- Evolving a Cooperative TransportBehavior for Two Simple Robots.- Artificial Life.- Co-evolution in Artificial Ecosystems: Competition and Cooperation Using Allellopathy.- The Evolutionary Control Methodology: An Overview.- Cellular Automata.- Modeling Selection Intensity for Linear Cellular Evolutionary Algorithms.- Research of Complex Forms in Cellular Automata by Evolutionary Algorithms.- Machine Learning.- Genetic Feature Learning Algorithm for Fluorescence Fingerprinting of Plants.- ROC-Based Evolutionary Learning: Application to Medical Data Mining.- Social Learning through Evolution of Language.