Artificial Evolution: 9th International Conference, Evolution Artificielle, EA 2009, Strasbourg, France, October 26-28, 2009. Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5975)

Annotation. This Book Constitutes The Proceedings Of The 9th International Conference On Artificial Evolution, Held In Strasbourg, France, In October 2009. Front Matter....Pages - Extremal Optimization Dynamics in Neutral Landscapes: The Royal Road Case....Pages 1-12 Improving the Scalability of EA Techniques: A Case Study in Clustering....Pages 13-24 MC-ANT: A Multi-Colony Ant Algorithm....Pages 25-36 Artificial Evolution for 3D PET Reconstruction....Pages 37-48 A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm/Variable Neighborhood Search Approach to Maximizing Residual Bandwidth of Links for Route Planning....Pages 49-60 Parallelization of an Evolutionary Algorithm on a Platform with Multi-core Processors....Pages 61-73 On the Difficulty of Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks: A Study of the Fitness Landscape Generated by Relative Squared Error....Pages 74-85 Memetic Algorithms for Constructing Binary Covering Arrays of Strength Three....Pages 86-97 A Priori Knowledge Integration in Evolutionary Optimization....Pages 98-109 On-Line, On-Board Evolution of Robot Controllers....Pages 110-121 The Transfer of Evolved Artificial Immune System Behaviours between Small and Large Scale Robotic Platforms....Pages 122-133 An Analysis of Algorithmic Components for Multiobjective Ant Colony Optimization: A Case Study on the Biobjective TSP....Pages 134-145 Alternative Fitness Assignment Methods for Many-Objective Optimization Problems....Pages 146-157 Evolving Efficient List Search Algorithms....Pages 158-169 Semantic Similarity Based Crossover in GP: The Case for Real-Valued Function Regression....Pages 170-181 Genetic-Programming Based Prediction of Data Compression Saving....Pages 182-193 On the Characteristics of Sequential Decision Problems and Their Impact on Evolutionary Computation and Reinforcement Learning....Pages 194-205 Back Matter....Pages -