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Monday 26th October

8.30 Registration
9.30 Welcome
10.00 12.00 Theory
Bias and variance in continuous EDA
Olivier Teytaud, Fabien Teytaud
Extremal Optimization Dynamics in Neutral Landscapes
Ivanoe De Falco, Antonio Della Cioppa, Domenico Maisto, Umberto Scafuti, Ernesto Tarantino
Controlling behavioral and structural parameters in Evolutionary Algorithms
Jorge Maturana, Frédéric Lardeux, Frédéric Saubion
Improving the Scalability of EA Techniques: A Case Study in Clustering
Stefan R. Bach, A. Sima Uyar, Jürgen Branke
12.00 13.30 Lunch KTorze
13.30 15.00 Ant Colony Optimization
MC-ANT: a Multi-colony Ant Algorithm
Leonor Melo, Francisco Pereira, Ernesto Costa
A New ACO Approach for Solving Dynamic Problems
Olfa Aouf SAMMOUD, Christine SOLNON, Khaled GHEDIRA
An interactive ant algorithm for real-time music accompaniment
Romain Clair, Mohamed Slimane, Nicolas Monmarché
15.00 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 17.30 Applications
Artificial Evolution for 3D PET Reconstruction
Franck Vidal, Delphine Lazaro-Ponthus, Samuel Legoupil, Jean Louchet, Evelyne Lutton, Jean-Marie Rocchisani
A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm / Variable Neighborhood Search Approach to Maximizing Residual Bandwidth of Links for Route Planning
Gajaruban Kandavanam, Dmitri Botvich, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Brendan Jennings
Parallelization of an Evolutionary Algorithm on a Computing Platform with Multi-core Processors
Shigeyoshi Tsutsui
On the difficulty of inferring gene regulatory networks: A study of the fitness landscape generated by relative squared error
Francesco Sambo, Marco A. Montes de Oca, Barbara Di Camillo, Thomas Stuetzle
17.30 18.30 Wine and cheese
18.30 General Assembly of the Evolution Artificielle association

Tuesday 27th October

8.30 9.30 Combinatorial Optimization
Memetic Algorithms for Constructing Binary Covering Arrays of Strength Three
Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello, Jose Torres-Jimenez
A priori knowledge integration in intelligent optimization
Paul Pitiot, Thierry Coudert, Laurent Geneste, Claude Baron
9.30 10.30 Robotics
On-line, On-board Evolution of Robot Controllers
Nicolas Bredeche, Evert Haasdijk, A.E. Eiben
The Transfer of Evolved Artificial Immune System Behaviours between Small and Large Scale Robotic Platforms
Amanda Whitbrook, Uwe Aickelin, Jonathan Garibaldi
10.30 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 12.30 'Multi Objective Optimization'
Gap Search in Particle Swarm Optimization
Markus Kress, Sanaz Mostaghim, Hartmut Schmeck, Detlef Seese
An Analysis of Algorithmic Components for Multiobjective Ant Colony Optimization: A Case Study on the Biobjective TSP
Manuel López-Ibáñez, Thomas Stuetzle
Alternative Fitness Assignment Methods for Many-Objective Optimization Problems
Mario Garza-Fabre, Gregorio Toscano-Pulido, Carlos Coello-Coello
12.30 14.00 Lunch at KTorze
14.00 15.00 Darrell Whitley: Elementary Landscapes and Why they Matter
15.00 17.30 Free visit of Strasbourg
17.30 Meeting at the Cathedral
18.00 Wine tasting at the Town Hospital Cellars
20.00 Banquet at Ami Schutz

Wednesday 28th October

9.00 10.30 Genetic Programming
Evolving Efficient List Search Algorithms
Kfir Wolfson, Moshe Sipper
Semantic Similarity based Crossover in GP: The case for Real-valued Function Regression
Quang Uy Nguyen, Michael O'Neill, Xuan Hoai Nguyen, Bob McKay, Edgar Galvan Lopez
Genetic Programming as a Predictor of Data Compression Saving
Ahmed Kattan, Riccardo Poli
10.30 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 12.00 Machine Learning
Binary versus Real-valued Reward Functions under Coevolutionary Reinforcement Learning
Peter Lichodzijewski, Malcolm Heywood
On the Characteristics of Sequential Decision Problems and Their Impact on Evolutionary Computation and Reinforcement Learning
Andre' Barreto, Douglas Augusto, Helio Barbosa
12.00 13.00 Awards + closing session
13.00 14.30 Lunch at KTorze.