8. EA 2007: Tours, France

Nicolas Monmarché, El-Ghazali Talbi, Pierre Collet, Marc Schoenauer, Evelyne Lutton (Eds.): Artificial Evolution, 8th International Conference, Evolution Artificielle, EA 2007, Tours, France, October 29-31, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4926 Springer 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-79304-5

Genetic Programming

Luis E. Da Costa, Jacques-André Landry, Yan Levasseur:
Treating Noisy Data Sets with Relaxed Genetic Programming. 1-12
Robert E. Keller, Riccardo Poli:
Cost-Benefit Investigation of a Genetic-Programming Hyperheuristic. 13-24
Renaud Barate, Antoine Manzanera:
Automatic Design of Vision-Based Obstacle Avoidance Controllers Using Genetic Programming. 25-36
Mohamed Bahy Bader-El-Den, Riccardo Poli:
Generating SAT Local-Search Heuristics Using a GP Hyper-Heuristic Framework. 37-49

Amir Nakib, Yann Cooren, Hamouche Oulhadj, Patrick Siarry:
Magnetic Resonance Image Segmentation Based on Two-Dimensional Exponential Entropy and a Parameter Free PSO. 50-61
Paulo Urbano:
Mimetic Variations on Stigmergic Swarm Paintings. 62-72
Nicolas Brodu:
Minimal and Necessary Conditions for the Emergence of Species-Specific Recognition Patterns. 73-86
Sonia Colas, Nicolas Monmarché, Pierre Gaucher, Mohamed Slimane:
Artificial Ants for the Optimization of Virtual Keyboard Arrangement for Disabled People. 87-99

Jean-Charles Créput, Abderrafiaa Koukam:
Self-organization and Evolution Combined to Address the Vehicle Routing Problem. 100-111
Tim Hohm, Matthias Egli, Samuel Gaehwiler, Stefan Bleuler, Jonathan Feller, Damian Frick, Richard Huber, Mathias Karlsson, Reto Lingenhag, Thomas Ruetimann, Tom Sasse, Thomas Steiner, Janine Stocker, Eckart Zitzler:
An Evolutionary Algorithm for the Block Stacking Problem. 112-123
Daniel Cosmin Porumbel, Jin-Kao Hao, Pascale Kuntz:
A Study of Evaluation Functions for the Graph K-Coloring Problem. 124-135
Cédric Pessan, Jean-Louis Bouquard, Emmanuel Néron:
Genetic Branch-and-Bound or Exact Genetic Algorithm?. 136-147
Windo Hutabarat, Geoffrey T. Parks, Jerome P. Jarrett, William N. Dawes, P. John Clarkson:
Aerodynamic Topology Optimisation Using an Implicit Representation and a Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm. 148-159
Juraj Plavcan, Pavel Petrovic:
Direct and Indirect Representations for Evolutionary Design of Objects. 160-171
Khoi Le, Dario Landa Silva:
Adaptive and Assortative Mating Scheme for Evolutionary Multi-Objective Algorithms. 172-183

Gabriela Ochoa, Evelyne Lutton, Edmund K. Burke:
The Cooperative Royal Road: Avoiding Hitchhiking. 184-195
Olivier Teytaud:
Conditioning, Halting Criteria and Choosing lambda. 196-206
Mohamed Jebalia, Anne Auger, Pierre Liardet:
Log-Linear Convergence and Optimal Bounds for the (1+1)-ES. 207-218

Riccardo Fanciulli, Lars Willmes, Janne Savolainen, Peter van der Walle, Thomas Bäck, Jennifer L. Herek:
Evolution Strategies for Laser Pulse Compression. 219-230
Aurélie Bousquet, Jean Louchet, Jean-Marie Rocchisani:
Fully Three-Dimensional Tomographic Evolutionary Reconstruction in Nuclear Medicine. 231-242
Jose Crispin Hernandez Hernandez, Béatrice Duval, Jin-Kao Hao:
A Study of Crossover Operators for Gene Selection of Microarray Data. 243-254
Emmanuel Sapin, Larry Bull:
Searching for Glider Guns in Cellular Automata: Exploring Evolutionary and Other Techniques. 255-265
Ender Özcan, Türker Erçal:
A Genetic Algorithm for Generating Improvised Music. 266-277
Alexandre Devert, Nicolas Bredeche, Marc Schoenauer:
Unsupervised Learning of Echo State Networks: A Case Study in Artificial Embryogeny. 278-290
Guillaume Sandou, Stéphane Font, Sihem Tebbani, Arnaud Hiret, Christian Mondon:
Enhanced Genetic Algorithm with Guarantee of Feasibility for the Unit Commitment Problem. 291-302
Jorge Maturana, Frédéric Saubion:
On the Design of Adaptive Control Strategies for Evolutionary Algorithms. 303-315
Paul Pitiot, Thierry Coudert, Laurent Geneste, Claude Baron:
Improvement of Intelligent Optimization by an Experience Feedback Approach. 316-327