Applications of Evolutionary Computation : EvoApplications 2012: EvoCOMNET, EvoCOMPLEX, EvoFIN, EvoGAMES, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoNUM, EvoPAR, EvoRISK, EvoSTIM, and EvoSTOC, Málaga, Spain, April 11-13, 2012, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2012, held in Málaga, Spain, in April 2012, colocated with the Evo\* 2012 events EuroGP, EvoCOP, EvoBIO, and EvoMUSART. The 54 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. EvoApplications 2012 consisted of the following 11 tracks: EvoCOMNET (nature-inspired techniques for telecommunication networks and other parrallel and distributed systems), EvoCOMPLEX (algorithms and complex systems), EvoFIN (evolutionary and natural computation in finance and economics), EvoGAMES (bio-inspired algorithms in games), EvoHOT (bio-inspired heuristics for design automation), EvoIASP (evolutionary computation in image analysis and signal processing), EvoNUM (bio-inspired algorithms for continuous parameter optimization), EvoPAR (parallel implementation of evolutionary algorithms), EvoRISK (computational intelligence for risk management, security and defense applications), EvoSTIM (nature-inspired techniques in scheduling, planning, and timetabling), and EvoSTOC (evolutionary algorithms in stochastic and dynamic environments). Front Matter....Pages - Optimizing Energy Consumption in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks by Means of Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 1-10 Network Protocol Discovery and Analysis via Live Interaction....Pages 11-20 Evolutionary Design of Active Free Space Optical Networks Based on Digital Mirror Devices....Pages 21-30 Frequency Robustness Optimization with Respect to Traffic Distribution for LTE System....Pages 31-41 Small-World Optimization Applied to Job Scheduling on Grid Environments from a Multi-Objective Perspective....Pages 42-51 Testing Diversity-Enhancing Migration Policies for Hybrid On-Line Evolution of Robot Controllers....Pages 52-62 Evolutionary Optimization of Pheromone-Based Stigmergic Communication....Pages 63-72 Hyperparameter Tuning in Bandit-Based Adaptive Operator Selection....Pages 73-82 Analyzing Dynamic Fitness Landscapes of the Targeting Problem of Chaotic Systems....Pages 83-92 Self-organization and Specialization in Multiagent Systems through Open-Ended Natural Evolution....Pages 93-102 An Empirical Tool for Analysing the Collective Behaviour of Population-Based Algorithms....Pages 103-113 Sales Potential Optimization on Directed Social Networks: A Quasi-Parallel Genetic Algorithm Approach....Pages 114-123 The Emergence of Multi-cellular Robot Organisms through On-Line On-Board Evolution....Pages 124-134 Evolving Seasonal Forecasting Models with Genetic Programming in the Context of Pricing Weather-Derivatives....Pages 135-144 Steepest Ascent Hill Climbing for Portfolio Selection....Pages 145-154 A Neuro-evolutionary Approach to Intraday Financial Modeling....Pages 155-164 A Comparative Study of Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms to Optimize the Selection of Investment Portfolios with Cardinality Constraints....Pages 165-173 A GA Combining Technical and Fundamental Analysis for Trading the Stock Market....Pages 174-183 Evolutionary Data Selection for Enhancing Models of Intraday Forex Time Series....Pages 184-193 Initial Results from Co-operative Co-evolution for Automated Platformer Design....Pages 194-203 Evolving Third-Person Shooter Enemies to Optimize Player Satisfaction in Real-Time....Pages 204-213 Why Simulate? Hybrid Biological-Digital Games....Pages 214-223 Spicing Up Map Generation....Pages 224-233 Dealing with Noisy Fitness in the Design of a RTS Game Bot....Pages 234-244 On Modeling, Evaluating and Increasing Players’ Satisfaction Quantitatively: Steps towards a Taxonomy....Pages 245-254 Monte-Carlo Tree Search for the Physical Travelling Salesman Problem....Pages 255-264 Diversified Virtual Camera Composition....Pages 265-274 Digging Deeper into Platform Game Level Design: Session Size and Sequential Features....Pages 275-284 Robot Base Disturbance Optimization with Compact Differential Evolution Light....Pages 285-294 Electrocardiographic Signal Classification with Evolutionary Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 295-304 A Genetic Fuzzy Rules Learning Approach for Unseeded Segmentation in Echography....Pages 305-314 Object Recognition with an Optimized Ventral Stream Model Using Genetic Programming....Pages 315-325 Evolving Visual Attention Programs through EVO Features....Pages 326-335 Evolutionary Purposive or Behavioral Vision for Camera Trajectory Estimation....Pages 336-345 On Evolutionary Approaches to Unsupervised Nearest Neighbor Regression....Pages 346-355 Evolutionary Regression Machines for Precision Agriculture....Pages 356-365 A Generic Approach to Parameter Control....Pages 366-375 Applying (Hybrid) Metaheuristics to Fuel Consumption Optimization of Hybrid Electric Vehicles....Pages 376-385 Improved Topological Niching for Real-Valued Global Optimization....Pages 386-395 Towards a Deeper Understanding of Trade-offs Using Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 396-405 OpenCL Implementation of Particle Swarm Optimization: A Comparison between Multi-core CPU and GPU Performances....Pages 406-415 A Library to Run Evolutionary Algorithms in the Cloud Using MapReduce....Pages 416-425 A Fair Comparison of Modern CPUs and GPUs Running the Genetic Algorithm under the Knapsack Benchmark....Pages 426-435 Validating a Peer-to-Peer Evolutionary Algorithm....Pages 436-445 Pool-Based Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms Using an Object Database....Pages 446-455 Migration and Replacement Policies for Preserving Diversity in Dynamic Environments....Pages 456-465 Distributed Simulated Annealing with MapReduce....Pages 466-476 Flex-GP: Genetic Programming on the Cloud....Pages 477-486 Customized Normalcy Profiles for the Detection of Targeted Attacks....Pages 487-496 A Novel Multiobjective Formulation of the Robust Software Project Scheduling Problem....Pages 497-507 Optimizing the Unlimited Shift Generation Problem....Pages 508-518 Ant Colony Optimization with Immigrants Schemes for the Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem....Pages 519-528 Evolving Communication in Robotic Swarms Using On-Line, On-Board, Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms....Pages 529-538 Virtual Loser Genetic Algorithm for Dynamic Environments....Pages 539-548 Back Matter....Pages -