Best Paper Nominations

Best Paper Award Winners

  • The following papers won the Best Paper Award.
  • ACO-SI + SBSE - Active Coevolutionary Learning of Requirements Specifications from Examples. Marcel Wever, Lorijn van Rooijen, Heiko Hamann
  • CS - Data-Efficient Exploration, Optimization, and Modeling of Diverse Designs through Surrogate-Assisted Illumination. Adam Gaier, Alexander Asteroth, Jean-Baptiste Mouret
  • DETA + GECH - Multi-Task Learning in Atari Video Games with Emergent Tangled Program Graphs. Stephen Kelly, Malcolm I. Heywood
  • ECOM - Configuring irace using surrogate configuration benchmarks. Nguyen Dang, Leslie Pérez Cáceres, Thomas Stützle, Patrick De Causmaecker
  • EML - A Genetic Programming Approach to Designing Convolutional Neural Network Architectures. Masanori Suganuma, Shinichi Shirakawa, Tomoharu Nagao
  • EMO - Reference Point Specification in Hypervolume Calculation for Fair Comparison and Efficient Search. Hisao Ishibuchi, Ryo Imada, Yu Setoguchi, Yusuke Nojima
  • ENUM + THEORY - Runtime Analysis of the (1 + (λ, λ)) Genetic Algorithm on Random Satisfiable 3-CNF Formulas. Maxim Buzdalov, Benjamin Doerr
  • GA - Fast Genetic Algorithms. Benjamin Doerr, Huu Phuoc Le, Regis Makhmara, Ta Duy Nguyen
  • GP - Counterexample-Driven Genetic Programming. Krzysztof Krawiec, Iwo Błądek, Jerry Swan
  • RWA - Evolutionary Decomposition for 3D Printing. Eric A. Yu, Jin Yeom, Cem C. Tutum, Etienne Vouga, Risto Miikkulainen




Best Paper Award Nominations

  • The following papers have been nominated for a Best Paper Award.
  • For each Best Paper (one per track, or group of small tracks), the final choice was made by GECCO attendees : all nominees running for the same Best Paper were presented during the same session, and the session attendees voted at the end of all presentations.
TrackTitleAuthors
ECOMAutomatic Design of Multi-Objective Local Search AlgorithmsAymeric Blot (Université de Lille, CRIStAL), Laetitia Jourdan (Université de Lille, CRIStAL), Marie-Éléonore Kessaci-Marmion (Université de Lille, CRIStAL)
EMLEvolving Memory-Augmented Neural Architecture for Deep Memory ProblemsShauharda Khadka (Oregon State University), Jen Jen Chung (Oregon State University), Kagan Tumer (Oregon State University)
EMOImproved Incremental Non-dominated Sorting for Steady-State Evolutionary Multiobjective OptimizationIlya Yakupov (ITMO University), Maxim Buzdalov (ITMO University)
ACO-SIAnalysis of Independent Roulette Selection in Parallel Ant Colony OptimizationHuw Lloyd (Manchester Metropolitan University), Martyn Amos (Manchester Metropolitan University)
GAOptimizing One Million Variables NK Landscapes by Hybridizing Deterministic Recombination and Local SearchFrancisco Chicano (University of Malaga), Darrell Whitley (Colorado State University), Gabriela Ochoa (University of Stirling), Renato Tinós (University of Sao Paulo)
RWAHeuristic Allocation of Computational ResourcesSilviu Tofan (University of Manchester), Richard Allmendinger (University of Manchester), Manuela Zanda (ARM), Olly Stephens (ARM)
GECHInvestigating Uncertainty Propagation in Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary AlgorithmsVanessa Volz (TU Dortmund University), Günter Rudolph (TU Dortmund University), Boris Naujoks (TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences)
CSDiscovering Evolutionary Stepping Stones through Behavior DominationElliot Meyerson (The University of Texas at Austin; and Sentient Technologies, Inc.), Risto Miikkulainen (The University of Texas at Austin; and Sentient Technologies, Inc.)
ECOMDistributed Evolutionary k-way Node SeparatorsPeter Sanders (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Christian Schulz (University of Vienna), Darren Strash (Colgate University), Robert Williger (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
ENUMTPAM: A Simulation-Based Model for Quantitatively Analyzing Parameter Adaptation MethodsRyoji Tanabe (Southern University of Science and Technology), Alex Fukunaga (The University of Tokyo)
GPHow Noisy Data Affects Geometric Semantic Genetic ProgrammingLuis F. Miranda (Federal University of Minas Gerais), Luiz Otavio V. B. Oliveira (Federal University of Minas Gerais), Joao Francisco B. S. Martins (Federal University of Minas Gerais), Gisele L. Pappa (Federal University of Minas Gerais)
ENUMExploiting Linkage Information in Real-Valued Optimization with the Real-Valued Gene-Pool Optimal Mixing Evolutionary AlgorithmAnton Bouter (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica), Tanja Alderliesten (Academic Medical Center), Cees Witteveen (Delft University of Technology), Peter A. N. Bosman (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
EMLAccelerating Coevolution with Adaptive Matrix FactorizationPaweł Liskowski (Poznan University of Technology/Laboratory of Intelligent Decision Support Systems), Wojciech Jaśkowski (Poznan University of Technology/Laboratory of Intelligent Decision Support Systems)
GPImproving Generalization of Evolved Programs through Automatic SimplificationThomas Helmuth (Washington and Lee University), Nicholas Freitag McPhee (University of Minnesota, Morris), Edward Pantridge (MassMutual Financial Group), Lee Spector (Hampshire College)
ENUMDeriving and Improving CMA-ES with Information Geometric Trust RegionsAbbas Abdolmaleki (PARC), Bob Price (PARC), Nuno Lau (University of Aveiro), Luis Paulo Reis (University of Minho), Gerhard Neumann (University of darmstadt)
EMLToward the automated analysis of complex diseases in genome-wide association studies using genetic programmingAndrew M. Sohn (Institute for Biomedical Informatics at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania), Randal S. Olson (Institute for Biomedical Informatics at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania), Jason H. Moore (Institute for Biomedical Informatics at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania)
CSOn Self-Adaptive Mutation Restarts for Evolutionary Robotics with Real RotorcraftGerard David Howard (CSIRO)
CSEvolutionary Optimization of Self-Assembly in a Swarm of Bio-microrobotsNathanael Y. I. Aubert-Kato (Tokyo Institute of Tech./UPMC), Charles Fosseprez (CRI), Guillaume Gines (ESPCI), Ibuki Kawamata (Tohoku University), Huy Q. Dinh (The University of Tokyo), Leo Cazenille (UPMC/UPD), Andre Estevez-Torres (UPMC), Masami Hagiya (The University of Tokyo), Yannick Rondelez (ESPCI), Nicolas Bredeche (UPMC)
EMOProgressively Adding Objectives: A Case Study in Anomaly DetectionLuis Martí (INRIA/Saclay and Universidade Federal Fluminense), Arsene Fansi-Tchango (Thales Research), Laurent Navarro (Thales Research), Marc Schoenauer (INRIA/Saclay)
GAFast Genetic AlgorithmsBenjamin Doerr (Ecole Polytechnique), Huu Phuoc Le (Ecole Polytechnique), Regis Makhmara (Ecole Polytechnique), Ta Duy Nguyen (Ecole Polytechnique)
SBSEActive Coevolutionary Learning of Requirements Specifications from ExamplesMarcel Wever (Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn), Lorijn van Rooijen (Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn), Heiko Hamann (Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn)
DETAMulti-Task Learning in Atari Video Games with Emergent Tangled Program GraphsStephen Kelly (Dalhousie University), Malcolm I. Heywood (Dalhousie University)
THEORYRuntime Analysis of the (1 + (λ, λ)) Genetic Algorithm on Random Satisfiable 3-CNF FormulasMaxim Buzdalov (ITMO University), Benjamin Doerr (Ecole Polytechnique)
CSData-Efficient Exploration, Optimization, and Modeling of Diverse Designs through Surrogate-Assisted IlluminationAdam Gaier (Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences / CNRS / Université de Lorraine), Alexander Asteroth (Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences), Jean-Baptiste Mouret (Inria / CNRS / Université de Lorraine)
EMOReference Point Specification in Hypervolume Calculation for Fair Comparison and Efficient SearchHisao Ishibuchi (Southern University of Science and Technology), Ryo Imada (Osaka Prefecture University), Yu Setoguchi (Osaka Prefecture University), Yusuke Nojima (Osaka Prefecture University)
GPCounterexample-Driven Genetic ProgrammingKrzysztof Krawiec (Poznan University of Technology), Iwo Błądek (Poznan University of Technology), Jerry Swan (University of York)
EMLA Genetic Programming Approach to Designing Convolutional Neural Network ArchitecturesMasanori Suganuma (Graduate school of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University), Shinichi Shirakawa (Graduate school of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University), Tomoharu Nagao (Graduate school of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University)
ECOMConfiguring irace using surrogate configuration benchmarksNguyen Dang (KU Leuven, CODeS, imec-ITEC), Leslie Pérez Cáceres (IRIDIA, CoDE, Universite libre de Bruxelles), Thomas Stützle (IRIDIA, CoDE, Universite libre de Bruxelles), Patrick De Causmaecker (KU Leuven, CODeS, imec-ITEC)
RWAEvolutionary Decomposition for 3D PrintingEric A. Yu (University of Texas at Austin), Jin Yeom (University of Texas at Austin), Cem C. Tutum (University of Texas at Austin), Etienne Vouga (University of Texas at Austin), Risto Miikkulainen (University of Texas at Austin)