Genetic and Evolutionary Computation - GECCO 2003

The set LNCS 2723 and LNCS 2724 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionaty Computation Conference, GECCO 2003, held in Chicago, IL, USA in July 2003. The 193 revised full papers and 93 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 417 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on a-life adaptive behavior, agents, and ant colony optimization; artificial immune systems; coevolution; DNA, molecular, and quantum computing; evolvable hardware; evolutionary robotics; evolution strategies and evolutionary programming; evolutionary sheduling routing; genetic algorithms; genetic programming; learning classifier systems; real-world applications; and search based softare engineering.

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A-Life, Adaptive Behavior, Agents, and Ant Colony Optimization.- Swarms in Dynamic Environments.- The Effect of Natural Selection on Phylogeny Reconstruction Algorithms.- AntClust: Ant Clustering and Web Usage Mining.- A Non-dominated Sorting Particle Swarm Optimizer for Multiobjective Optimization.- The Influence of Run-Time Limits on Choosing Ant System Parameters.- Emergence of Collective Behavior in Evolving Populations of Flying Agents.- On Role of Implicit Interaction and Explicit Communications in Emergence of Social Behavior in Continuous Predators-Prey Pursuit Problem.- Demonstrating the Evolution of Complex Genetic Representations: An Evolution of Artificial Plants.- Sexual Selection of Co-operation.- Optimization Using Particle Swarms with Near Neighbor Interactions.- Revisiting Elitism in Ant Colony Optimization.- A New Approach to Improve Particle Swarm Optimization.- A-Life, Adaptive Behavior, Agents, and Ant Colony Optimization - Posters.- Clustering and Dynamic Data Visualization with Artificial Flying Insect.- Ant Colony Programming for Approximation Problems.- Long-Term Competition for Light in Plant Simulation.- Using Ants to Attack a Classical Cipher.- Comparison of Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimizer When Evolving a Recurrent Neural Network.- Adaptation and Ruggedness in an Evolvability Landscape.- Study Diploid System by a Hamiltonian Cycle Problem Algorithm.- A Possible Mechanism of Repressing Cheating Mutants in Myxobacteria.- Tour Jeté, Pirouette: Dance Choreographing by Computers.- Multiobjective Optimization Using Ideas from the Clonal Selection Principle.- Artificial Immune Systems.- A Hybrid Immune Algorithm with Information Gain for the Graph Coloring Problem.- MILA - Multilevel Immune Learning Algorithm.- The Effect of Binary Matching Rules in Negative Selection.- Immune Inspired Somatic Contiguous Hypermutation for Function Optimisation.- A Scalable Artificial Immune System Model for Dynamic Unsupervised Learning.- Developing an Immunity to Spam.- Artificial Immune Systems - Posters.- A Novel Immune Anomaly Detection Technique Based on Negative Selection.- Visualization of Topic Distribution Based on Immune Network Model.- Spatial Formal Immune Network.- Coevolution.- Focusing versus Intransitivity Geometrical Aspects of Co-evolution.- Representation Development from Pareto-Coevolution.- Learning the Ideal Evaluation Function.- A Game-Theoretic Memory Mechanism for Coevolution.- The Paradox of the Plankton: Oscillations and Chaos in Multispecies Evolution.- Exploring the Explorative Advantage of the Cooperative Coevolutionary (1+1) EA.- PalmPrints: A Novel Co-evolutionary Algorithm for Clustering Finger Images.- Coevolution and Linear Genetic Programming for Visual Learning.- Finite Population Models of Co-evolution and Their Application to Haploidy versus Diploidy.- Evolving Keepaway Soccer Players through Task Decomposition.- Coevolution - Posters.- A New Method of Multilayer Perceptron Encoding.- An Incremental and Non-generational Coevolutionary Algorithm.- Coevolutionary Convergence to Global Optima.- Generalized Extremal Optimization for Solving Complex Optimal Design Problems.- Coevolving Communication and Cooperation for Lattice Formation Tasks.- DNA, Molecular, and Quantum Computing.- Efficiency and Reliability of DNA-Based Memories.- Evolving Hogg's Quantum Algorithm Using Linear-Tree GP.- Hybrid Networks of Evolutionary Processors.- DNA-Like Genomes for Evolution in silico.- DNA, Molecular, and Quantum Computing - Posters.- String Binding-Blocking Automata.- On Setting the Parameters of QEA for Practical Applications: Some Guidelines Based on Empirical Evidence.- Evolutionary Two-Dimensional DNA Sequence Alignment.- Evolvable Hardware.- Active Control of Thermoacoustic Instability in a Model Combustor with Neuromorphic Evolvable Hardware.- Hardware Evolution of Analog Speed Controllers for a DC Motor.- Evolvable Hardware - Posters.- An Examination of Hypermutation and Random Immigrant Variants of mrCGA for Dynamic Environments.- Inherent Fault Tolerance in Evolved Sorting Networks.- Evolutionary Robotics.- Co-evolving Task-Dependent Visual Morphologies in Predator-Prey Experiments.- Integration of Genetic Programming and Reinforcement Learning for Real Robots.- Multi-objectivity as a Tool for Constructing Hierarchical Complexity.- Learning Biped Locomotion from First Principles on a Simulated Humanoid Robot Using Linear Genetic Programming.- Evolutionary Robotics - Posters.- An Evolutionary Approach to Automatic Construction of the Structure in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning.- Fractional Order Dynamical Phenomena in a GA.- Evolution Strategies/Evolutionary Programming.- Dimension-Independent Convergence Rate for Non-isotropic (1, ?) - ES.- The Steady State Behavior of (?/? I, ?)-ES on Ellipsoidal Fitness Models Disturbed by Noise.- Theoretical Analysis of Simple Evolution Strategies in Quickly Changing Environments.- Evolutionary Computing as a Tool for Grammar Development.- Solving Distributed Asymmetric Constraint Satisfaction Problems Using an Evolutionary Society of Hill-Climbers.- Use of Multiobjective Optimization Concepts to Handle Constraints in Single-Objective Optimization.- Evolution Strategies with Exclusion-Based Selection Operators and a Fourier Series Auxiliary Function.- Ruin and Recreate Principle Based Approach for the Quadratic Assignment Problem.- Model-Assisted Steady-State Evolution Strategies.- On the Optimization of Monotone Polynomials by the (1+1) EA and Randomized Local Search.- Evolution Strategies/Evolutionary Programming - Posters.- A Forest Representation for Evolutionary Algorithms Applied to Network Design.- Solving Three-Objective Optimization Problems Using Evolutionary Dynamic Weighted Aggregation: Results and Analysis.- The Principle of Maximum Entropy-Based Two-Phase Optimization of Fuzzy Controller by Evolutionary Programming.- A Simple Evolution Strategy to Solve Constrained Optimization Problems.- Effective Search of the Energy Landscape for Protein Folding.- A Clustering Based Niching Method for Evolutionary Algorithms.- Evolutionary Scheduling Routing.- A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem.- An Evolutionary Approach to Capacitated Resource Distribution by a Multiple-Agent Team.- A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm Based on Complete Graph Representation for the Sequential Ordering Problem.- An Optimization Solution for Packet Scheduling: A Pipeline-Based Genetic Algorithm Accelerator.- Evolutionary Scheduling Routing - Posters.- Generation and Optimization of Train Timetables Using Coevolution.- Genetic Algorithms.- Chromosome Reuse in Genetic Algorithms.- Real-Parameter Genetic Algorithms for Finding Multiple Optimal Solutions in Multi-modal Optimization.- An Adaptive Penalty Scheme for Steady-State Genetic Algorithms.- Asynchronous Genetic Algorithms for Heterogeneous Networks Using Coarse-Grained Dataflow.- A Generalized Feedforward Neural Network Architecture and Its Training Using Two Stochastic Search Methods.- Ant-Based Crossover for Permutation Problems.- Selection in the Presence of Noise.- Effective Use of Directional Information in Multi-objective Evolut…