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

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
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