Program EVOLVE/ECODAM 2015
OVERVIEW
Thursday, June 18 (Senate Hall)
| 09:30-10:00 | – | Registration |
| 10:00-10:30 | – | Opening session |
| 10:30-11:30 | – | Invited lecture: Kalyanmoy Deb - A Theory-Based Termination Condition for Convergence in Real-Parameter Evolutionary Algorithms |
| 11:30-11:45 | – | Coffee break |
| 11:45-12:45 | – | Conference Track: Computational Game Theory and Probabilistic Models – Chair: Dan Simovici |
| 13:00 | – | Lunch |
| 15:00-16:00 | – | Conference Track: Multicriteria and Set-Oriented Optimization – Chair: Kalyanmoy Deb |
| 16:00-16:15 | – | Coffee break |
| 16:15-18:00 | – | Keynote Tutorial: Dr. Iryna Yevseyeva - Multicriteria Decision-Aiding: Compensating and Non-compensating Methods |
Friday, June 19 (Ferdinand Hall)
| 09:30-10:30 | – | Invited lecture: Kenneth De Jong - Understanding Asynchronous Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms |
| 10:30-11:30 | – | Invited lecture: Carlos Coello Coello - Recent Results and Open Problems in Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization |
| 11:30-11:45 | – | Coffee break |
| 11:45-13:05 | – | Conference Track: EVOLVE Main Track |
| 13:05 | – | Lunch |
| 15:00-16:00 | – | Conference Track: Complex Networks/Quantitative Aspects of EA |
| 16:00-16:15 | – | Coffee break |
| 16:15-18:00 | – | Keynote Tutorial: Madalina Drugan - Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning or Reinforcement Evolutionary Algorithms? |
Saturday, June 20 – Social Program
Sunday, June 21 (Senate Hall)
| 11:30-13:00 | – | Practical Aspects of Evolutionary Algorithms: Industrial Panel on Career Opportunities |
| 13:00-14:15 | – | Lunch |
| 14:15-15:15 | – | Invited lecture: Sorin Istrail - Applications to Medical Genetics and Computational Genomics |
| 15:30 | – | Coffee break |
| 15:30-16:30 | – | Conference Track Evolving from Natural Computing and Data Mining |
Monday, June 22 (Senate Hall)
| 09:30-10:30 | – | Invited lecture: Pierre Del Moral - Particle methodologies: a bridge across mathematics, physics, biology and information theory |
| 10:30-10:45 | – | Coffee break |
| 10:45-11:45 | – | Invited lecture: Dan Simovici - Exploring the Graph of the Web |
| 11:45-12:45 | – | Evolutionary Monte Carlo methods - Part I - Review of probabilistic tools (Course, Lab) |
| 13:00 | – | Lunch |
| 15:00-17:00 | – | Evolutionary Monte Carlo methods - Part II - Review on Markov chains ⊕ Nonlinear processes/Filtering (Course, Lab) |
Tuesday, June 23 (Senate Hall)
| 09:00-10:45 | – | Invited tutorial: Michael Emmerich - Set-Oriented Multicriteria Optimization: Deterministic and Stochastic Methods |
| 10:45-11:00 | – | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:30 | – | Evolutionary Monte Carlo methods - Part III - Feynman-Kac particle sampling algorithms (Course, Lab) |
| 13:00 | – | Lunch |
| 15:00-17:00 | – | Evolutionary Monte Carlo methods - Part IV - Illustrations - Exercises - Solutions (Course, Lab) |
Full Program
Thursday, June 18 (Senate Hall)
| 09:30-10:00 | – | Registration |
| 10:00-10:30 | – | Opening session |
| 10:30-11:30 | – | Invited lecture: Kalyanmoy Deb - A Theory-Based Termination Condition for Convergence in Real-Parameter Evolutionary Algorithms |
| 11:30-11:45 | – | Coffee break |
| 11:45-12:45 | – | Conference Track: Computational Game Theory and Probabilistic Models – Chair: Rodica Lung |
| 1- Mihai Suciu, Rodica Ioana Lung, Noémi Gaskó, Tudor-Dan Mihoc and D. Dumitrescu – Evolving game strategies in a dynamic Cournot Oligopoly setting | ||
| 2- Réka Nagy, Mihai Suciu and D Dumitrescu – Cooperation in Multicriteria Repeated Games | ||
| 3- Antoni Leon Dawidowicz and Katarzyna Brzozowska-Rup – An estimation of the latent beta regression model using the Sequential Monte Carlo methods. | ||
| 13:00 | – | Lunch |
| 15:00-16:00 | – | Conference Track: Multicriteria and Set-Oriented Optimization – Chair: Kalyanmoy Deb |
| 1- Susanne Rosenthal, Bernd Freisleben and Markus Borschbach – Aggregate Selection in Multi-Objective Biochemical Optimization via the Average Cuboid Volume Indicator | ||
| 2- Wilco Verhoef, Andre Deutz and Michael Emmerich – On Gradient-based and Swarm-based Algorithms for Set-oriented Bicriteria Optimization | ||
| 3- Vitor Basto-Fernandes, Iryna Yevseyeva, David Ruano-Ordas, Jiaqi Zhao, Florentino Fernandez-Riverola and Michael Emmerich – Quadcriteria Optimization of Binary Classifiers: Error Rates, Coverage, and Complexity | ||
| 16:00-16:15 | – | Coffee break |
| 16:15-18:00 | – | Keynote Tutorial: Dr. Iryna Yevseyeva - Multicriteria Decision-Aiding: Compensating and Non-compensating Methods |
Friday, June 19 (Ferdinand Hall)
| 09:30-10:30 | – | Invited lecture: Kenneth De Jong - Understanding Asynchronous Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms |
| 10:30-11:30 | – | Invited lecture: Carlos Coello Coello - Recent Results and Open Problems in Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization |
| 11:30-11:45 | – | Coffee break |
| 11:45-13:05 | – | Conference Track: EVOLVE Main Track – Chair: Carlos Coello Coello |
| 1- Madalina Drugan – Efficient real-parameter single objective optimizer using hierarchies of CMA-ES solvers | ||
| 2- Hao Wang, Thomas Bäck and Michael Emmerich – Multi-point Efficient Global Optimization using Niching | ||
| 3- Michael Emmerich and Alexander Nezhinsky – Parameter Identification of Stochastic Gene Regulation Models by Indicator-based Evolutionary Level Set Approximation | ||
| 4- Emilia Tantar et al.: T.B.A. | ||
| 13:05 | – | Lunch |
| 15:00-16:00 | – | Conference Track: Complex Networks/Quantitative Aspects of EA – Chair: Kenneth de Jong |
| 1- Asep Maulana, André Deutz, Erik Schultes, and Michael Emmerich – Community Detection in NK Landscapes - An Empirical Study of Complexity Transitions in Interactive Networks | ||
| 2- Josiah Adeyemo and Oluwaseun Oyebode – River Flow Forecasting Using an Improved Artificial Neural Network | ||
| 3- Josiah Adeyemo and Oluwatosin Olofintoye – Minimizing water cost in food processing industry using differential evolution | ||
| 16:00-16:15 | – | Coffee break |
| 16:15-18:00 | – | Keynote Tutorial: Madalina Drugan - Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning or Reinforcement Evolutionary Algorithms? |
Saturday, June 20 – Social Program
Sunday, June 21 (Senate Hall)
| 11:30-13:00 | – | Practical Aspects of Evolutionary Algorithms: Industrial Panel with Career Opportunities |
| 13:00-14:15 | – | Lunch |
| 14:15-15:15 | – | Invited lecture: Sorin Istrail - Applications to Medical Genetics and Computational Genomics |
| 15:30 | – | Coffee break |
| 15:30-16:30 | – | Conference Track Evolving from Natural Computing and Data Mining – Chair: Sorin Istrail |
| 1- Raluca Necula, Madalina Raschip and Mihaela Breaban – Balancing the Subtours for Multiple TSP Approached with Ant Colony Systems: Clustering-Based Approaches vs. MinMax Formulation | ||
| 2- Camelia Lemnaru and Rodica Potolea – Evolutionary Cost-Sensitive Balancing: A Generic Method for Imbalanced Classification Problems | ||
| 3- Razvan Benchea, Dragos Gavrilut and Henri Luchian – Feature creation using Genetic Algorithms for Malware Classification | ||
| 4- Ciprian Oprisa, George Cabau and Gheorghe Sebestyen Pal – Multi-centroid Cluster Analysis in Malware Research |
Monday, June 22 (Senate Hall)
| 09:30-10:30 | – | Invited lecture: Pierre Del Moral - Particle methodologies: a bridge across mathematics, physics, biology and information theory |
| 10:30-10:45 | – | Coffee break |
| 10:45-11:45 | – | Invited lecture: Dan Simovici - Exploring the Graph of the Web |
| 11:45-12:45 | – | Evolutionary Monte Carlo methods - Part I - Review of probabilistic tools (Course, Lab) |
| 13:00 | – | Lunch |
| 15:00-17:00 | – | Evolutionary Monte Carlo methods - Part II - Review on Markov chains ⊕ Nonlinear processes/Filtering (Course, Lab) |
Tuesday, June 23 (Senate Hall)
| 09:00-10:45 | – | Invited tutorial: Michael Emmerich - Set-Oriented Multicriteria Optimization: Deterministic and Stochastic Methods |
| 10:45-11:00 | – | Coffee break |
| 11:00-12:30 | – | Evolutionary Monte Carlo methods - Part III - Feynman-Kac particle sampling algorithms(Course, Lab) |
| 13:00 | – | Lunch |
| 15:00-17:00 | – | Evolutionary Monte Carlo methods - Part IV - Illustrations - Exercises - Solutions (Course, Lab) |