Applications of Evolutionary Computation : 22nd International Conference, EvoApplications 2019, Held As Part of EvoStar 2019, Leipzig, Germany, April 24–26, 2019, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2019, held in Leipzig, Germany, in April 2019, co-located with the Evo*2019 events EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoMUSART. The 44 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: Engineering and Real World Applications; Games; General; Image and Signal Processing; Life Sciences; Networks and Distributed Systems; Neuroevolution and Data Analytics; Numerical Optimization: Theory, Benchmarks, and Applications; Robotics. -- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 A Comparison of Different Many-Objective Optimization Algorithms for Energy System Optimization (Tobias Rodemann)....Pages 3-18 Design of Powered Floor Systems for Mobile Robots with Differential Evolution (Eric Medvet, Stefano Seriani, Alberto Bartoli, Paolo Gallina)....Pages 19-32 Solving the Multi-objective Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling Problem with Alternative Recipes for a Chemical Production Process (Piotr Dziurzanski, Shuai Zhao, Jerry Swan, Leandro Soares Indrusiak, Sebastian Scholze, Karl Krone)....Pages 33-48 Quantifying the Effects of Increasing User Choice in MAP-Elites Applied to a Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problem (Neil Urquhart, Emma Hart, William Hutcheson)....Pages 49-63 A Hybrid Multiobjective Differential Evolution Approach to Stator Winding Optimization (André M. Silva, Fernando J. T. E. Ferreira, Carlos Henggeler Antunes)....Pages 64-71 GA-Novo: De Novo Peptide Sequencing via Tandem Mass Spectrometry Using Genetic Algorithm (Samaneh Azari, Bing Xue, Mengjie Zhang, Lifeng Peng)....Pages 72-89 Ant Colony Optimization for Optimized Operation Scheduling of Combined Heat and Power Plants (Johannes Mast, Stefan Rädle, Joachim Gerlach, Oliver Bringmann)....Pages 90-105 A Flexible Dissimilarity Measure for Active and Passive 3D Structures and Its Application in the Fitness–Distance Analysis (Maciej Komosinski, Agnieszka Mensfelt)....Pages 106-121 Front Matter ....Pages 123-123 Free Form Evolution for Angry Birds Level Generation (Laura Calle, Juan J. Merelo, Antonio Mora-García, José-Mario García-Valdez)....Pages 125-140 Efficient Online Hyperparameter Adaptation for Deep Reinforcement Learning (Yinda Zhou, Weiming Liu, Bin Li)....Pages 141-155 GAMER: A Genetic Algorithm with Motion Encoding Reuse for Action-Adventure Video Games (Tasos Papagiannis, Georgios Alexandridis, Andreas Stafylopatis)....Pages 156-171 Effects of Input Addition in Learning for Adaptive Games: Towards Learning with Structural Changes (Iago Bonnici, Abdelkader Gouaïch, Fabien Michel)....Pages 172-184 Front Matter ....Pages 185-185 Supporting Medical Decisions for Treating Rare Diseases Through Genetic Programming (Illya Bakurov, Mauro Castelli, Leonardo Vanneschi, Maria João Freitas)....Pages 187-203 Evolutionary Successful Strategies in a Transparent iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma (Anton M. Unakafov, Thomas Schultze, Igor Kagan, Sebastian Moeller, Alexander Gail, Stefan Treue et al.)....Pages 204-219 Evolutionary Algorithms for the Design of Quantum Protocols (Walter Krawec, Stjepan Picek, Domagoj Jakobovic)....Pages 220-236 Evolutionary Computation Techniques for Constructing SAT-Based Attacks in Algebraic Cryptanalysis (Artem Pavlenko, Alexander Semenov, Vladimir Ulyantsev)....Pages 237-253 On the Use of Evolutionary Computation for In-Silico Medicine: Modelling Sepsis via Evolving Continuous Petri Nets (Ahmed Hallawa, Elisabeth Zechendorf, Yi Song, Anke Schmeink, Arne Peine, Lukas Marin et al.)....Pages 254-269 A Cultural Algorithm for Determining Similarity Values Between Users in Recommender Systems (Kalyani Selvarajah, Ziad Kobti, Mehdi Kargar)....Pages 270-283 Front Matter ....Pages 285-285 Optimizing the C Index Using a Canonical Genetic Algorithm (Thomas A. Runkler, James C. Bezdek)....Pages 287-298 Memetic Evolution of Classification Ensembles (Szymon Piechaczek, Michal Kawulok, Jakub Nalepa)....Pages 299-307 Genetic Programming for Feature Selection and Feature Combination in Salient Object Detection (Shima Afzali, Harith Al-Sahaf, Bing Xue, Christopher Hollitt, Mengjie Zhang)....Pages 308-324 Variable-Length Representation for EC-Based Feature Selection in High-Dimensional Data (N. D. Cilia, C. De Stefano, F. Fontanella, A. Scotto di Freca)....Pages 325-340 Front Matter ....Pages 341-341 A Knowledge Based Differential Evolution Algorithm for Protein Structure Prediction (Pedro H. Narloch, Márcio Dorn)....Pages 343-359 A Biased Random Key Genetic Algorithm with Local Search Chains for Molecular Docking (Pablo F. Leonhart, Márcio Dorn)....Pages 360-376 Self-sustainability Challenges of Plants Colonization Strategies in Virtual 3D Environments (Kevin Godin-Dubois, Sylvain Cussat-Blanc, Yves Duthen)....Pages 377-392 Front Matter ....Pages 393-393 Early Detection of Botnet Activities Using Grammatical Evolution (Selim Yilmaz, Sevil Sen)....Pages 395-404 Exploring Concurrent and Stateless Evolutionary Algorithms (Juan J. Merelo, J. L. J. Laredo, Pedro A. Castillo, José-Mario García-Valdez, Sergio Rojas-Galeano)....Pages 405-412 Evolving Trust Formula to Evaluate Data Trustworthiness in VANETs Using Genetic Programming (Mehmet Aslan, Sevil Sen)....Pages 413-429 A Matheuristic for Green and Robust 5G Virtual Network Function Placement (Thomas Bauschert, Fabio D’Andreagiovanni, Andreas Kassler, Chenghao Wang)....Pages 430-438 Prolong the Network Lifetime of Wireless Underground Sensor Networks by Optimal Relay Node Placement (Nguyen Thi Tam, Huynh Thi Thanh Binh, Tran Huy Hung, Dinh Anh Dung, Le Trong Vinh)....Pages 439-453 Front Matter ....Pages 455-455 The Evolution of Self-taught Neural Networks in a Multi-agent Environment (Nam Le, Anthony Brabazon, Michael O’Neill)....Pages 457-472 Coevolution of Generative Adversarial Networks (Victor Costa, Nuno Lourenço, Penousal Machado)....Pages 473-487 Evolving Recurrent Neural Networks for Time Series Data Prediction of Coal Plant Parameters (AbdElRahman ElSaid, Steven Benson, Shuchita Patwardhan, David Stadem, Travis Desell)....Pages 488-503 Improving NeuroEvolution Efficiency by Surrogate Model-Based Optimization with Phenotypic Distance Kernels (Jörg Stork, Martin Zaefferer, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein)....Pages 504-519 Front Matter ....Pages 521-521 Compact Optimization Algorithms with Re-Sampled Inheritance (Giovanni Iacca, Fabio Caraffini)....Pages 523-534 Particle Swarm Optimization: Understanding Order-2 Stability Guarantees (Christopher W. Cleghorn)....Pages 535-549 Fundamental Flowers: Evolutionary Discovery of Coresets for Classification (Pietro Barbiero, Alberto Tonda)....Pages 550-564 Front Matter ....Pages 565-565 Influence of Local Selection and Robot Swarm Density on the Distributed Evolution of GRNs (Iñaki Fernández Pérez, Stéphane Sanchez)....Pages 567-582 Body Symmetry in Morphologically Evolving Modular Robots (T. van de Velde, C. Rossi, A. E. Eiben)....Pages 583-598 Trophallaxis, Low-Power Vision Sensors and Multi-objective Heuristics for 3D Scene Reconstruction Using Swarm Robotics (Maria Carrillo, Javier Sánchez-Cubillo, Eneko Osaba, Miren Nekane Bilbao, Javier Del Ser)....Pages 599-615 Evolving Robots on Easy Mode: Towards a Variable Complexity Controller for Quadrupeds (Tønnes F. Nygaard, Charles P. Martin, Jim Torresen, Kyrre Glette)....Pages 616-632 Introducing Weighted Intermediate Recombination in On-Line Collective Robotics, the (\(\mu /\mu _{\mathrm {W}},1\))-On-line EEA (Amine Boumaza)....Pages 633-640 Back Matter ....Pages 641-642