ACCEPTED PAPERS

The following is the list of the 99 accepted papers out of 268 submitted papers. You can find the poster paintings here. 

Multi-Fidelity Optimization Approach under Prior and Posterior Constraints and its Application to Compliance Minimization 
Youhei Akimoto, Naoki Sakamoto, and Makoto Ohtani 

The Hessian Estimation Evolution Strategy 
Tobias Glasmachers and Oswin Krause 

Global Landscape Structure and the Random MAX-SAT Phase Transition 
Gabriela Ochoa, Francisco Chicano, and Marco Tomassini 

Large Population Sizes and Crossover Help in Dynamic Environments 
Johannes Lengler and Jonas Meier 

An Ensemble Indicator-based Density Estimator for Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization 
Jesús Guillermo Falcón-Cardona, Arnaud Liefooghe, and Carlos A. Coello Coello 

Improved Fixed Budget Results via Drift Analysis 
Timo Kötzing and Carsten Witt 

Exploratory Landscape Analysis is Strongly Sensitive to the Sampling Strategy 
Quentin Renau, Carola Doerr, Johann Dreo, and Benjamin Doerr 

Visualising Evolution History in Multi- and Many-Objective Optimisation 
Mathew J.  Walter, David J.  Walker, and Matthew J. Craven 

Analysis on the Efficiency of Multifactorial Evolutionary Algorithms 
Zhengxin Huang, Zefeng Chen, and Yuren Zhou 

Improving Imbalanced Classification by Anomaly Detection 
Jiawen Kong, Wojtek Kowalczyk, Stefan Menzel, and Thomas Bäck 

Adaptive Operator Selection Based on Dynamic Thompson Sampling for MOEA/D 
Lei Sun and Ke Li 

Human-Like Summaries from Heterogeneous and Time-Windowed Software Development Artefacts 
Mahfouth Alghamdi, Christoph Treude, and Markus Wagner 

Continuous Optimization Benchmarks by Simulation 
Martin Zaefferer and Frederik Rehbach 

Decentralized Combinatorial Optimization 
Lee A. Christie 

Evolved Gossip Contracts – A Framework for designing Multi-agent Systems 
Nicola Mc Donnell, Enda Howley, and Jim Duggan 

Image Feature Learning with Genetic Programming 
Stefano Ruberto, Valerio Terragni, and Jason H. Moore 

Exponential Upper Bounds for the Runtime of Randomized Search Heuristics 
Benjamin Doerr 

Evolving Deep Forest with Automatic Feature Extraction for Image Classification Using Genetic Programming 
Ying Bi, Bing Xue and Mengjie Zhang 

Hypervolume Optimal μ-Distributions on Line-based Pareto Fronts in Three Dimensions 
Ke Shang, Hisao Ishibuchi, Weiyu Chen, and Lucáš Adam 

A Variable Neighborhood Search for the Job Sequencing with One Common and Multiple Secondary Resources Problem 
Thomas Kaufmann, Matthias Horn, and Günther R. Raidl 

Fast Perturbative Algorithm Configurators 
George T. Hall, Pietro S. Oliveto and Dirk Sudholt. 

Solution Repair by Inequality Network Propagation in LocalSolver 
Léa Blaise, Christian Artigues, and Thierry Benoist 

The Usability Argument for Refinement Typed Genetic Programming 
Alcides Fonseca, Paulo Santos, and Sara Silva 

Model-Based Algorithm Configuration with Default-Guided Probabilistic Sampling 
Marie Anastacio and Holger Hoos 

Behavior Optimization in Large Distributed Systems Modeled by Cellular Automata 
Franciszek Seredyński and Jakub Gąsior 

Parallelized Bayesian Optimization for Expensive Robot Controller Evolution 
Margarita Rebolledo, Frederik Rehbach, A.E. Eiben, and Thomas Bartz-Beielstein 

Evolutionary Algorithms with Self-adjusting Asymmetric Mutation 
Amirhossein Rajabi and Carsten Witt 

On averaging the best samples in evolutionary computation 
Laurent Meunier, Yann Chevaleyre, Jeremy Rapin, Clément H. Royer, and  Olivier Teytaud 

Variance Reduction for Better Sampling in Continuous Domains
Laurent Meunier, Carola Doerr, Jeremy Rapin, and  Olivier Teytaud 

Network Representation Learning based on Topological Structure and Vertex Attributes 
Shengxiang Hu, Bofeng Zhang, Ying Lv, Furong Chang, and Zhuocheng Zhou 

Multi-Objective Counterfactual Explanations 
Susanne Dandl, Christoph Molnar, Martin Binder, and Bernd Bischl 

PbO-CCSAT: Boosting Local Search for Satisfiability using Programming by Optimisation 
Chuan Luo, Holger Hoos and Shaowei Cai 

Evolutionary Multi-Objective Design of SARS-CoV-2 Protease Inhibitor Candidates 
Tim Cofala, Lars Elend, Philip Mirbach, Jonas Prellberg, Thomas Teusch, and Oliver Kramer 

Designing Air Flow with Surrogate-assisted Phenotypic Niching 
Alexander Hagg, Dominik Wilde, Alexander Asteroth, and Thomas Bäck 

Learning Step-Size Adaptation in CMA-ES 
Gresa Shala, André Biedenkapp, Noor Awad, Steven Adriaensen, Marius Lindauer, and Frank Hutter.  

Comparative Run-Time Performance of Evolutionary Algorithms on Multi-Objective Interpolated Continuous Optimization Problems 
Alexandru-Ciprian Zăvoianu, Benjamin Lacroix, and John McCall 

Towards Novel Meta-heuristic Algorithms for Dynamic Capacitated Arc Routing Problems 
Hao Tong, Leandro L. Minku, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, and Xin Yao 

Evolving Sampling Strategies for One-Shot Optimization Tasks 
Jakob Bossek, Carola Doerr, Pascal Kerschke, Aneta Neumann, and Frank Neumann 

Canonical Correlation Discriminative Learning for Domain Adaptation 
Wenjing Wang, Yuwu Lu, and Zhihui Lai 

Maximizing Submodular or Monotone Functions under Partition Matroid Constraints by Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms 
Anh Viet Do and Frank Neumann 

Multi-objective Optimization by Uncrowded Hypervolume Gradient Ascent 
Timo M. Deist, Stefanus C. Maree, Tanja Alderliesten, and Peter A. N. Bosman 

One PLOT to Show Them All: Visualization of Efficient Sets in Multi-Objective Landscapes 
Lennart Schäpermeier, Christian Grimme, and Pascal Kerschke 

Many-objective Test Database Generation for SQL 
Zhilei Ren, Shaozheng Dong, Xiaochen Li, Zonzheng Chi, and He Jiang  

On Sharing Information betweenSub-populations in MOEA/S 
Lucas de Almeida Ribeiro, Michael  Emmerich, Anderson Da Silva Soares, and Telma Woerle de Lima 

Can compact optimisation algorithms be structurally biased? 
Anna V. Kononova, Fabio Caraffini, Hao Wang and Thomas Bäck 

Sparse Inverse Covariance Learning for CMA-ES with Graphical Lasso 
Konstantinos Varelas, Anne Auger, and Nikolaus Hansen 

Simple Surrogate Model Assisted Optimization with Covariance Matrix Adaptation 
Lauchlan Toal and Dirk V. Arnold 

Robust evolutionary bi-objective optimization for prostate cancer treatment with high-dose-rate brachytherapy 
Marjolein C. van der Meer, Arjan Bel, Yury Niatsetski, Tanja Alderliesten, Bradley R. Pieters, and Peter A.N. Bosman 

Ensuring smoothly navigable approximation sets by Bézier  curve parameterizations in evolutionary bi-objective optimization 
Stefanus C. Maree, Tanja Alderliesten, and Peter A.N. Bosman 

Hybridizing the 1/5-th Success Rule with Q-Learning for Controlling the Mutation Rate of an Evolutionary Algorithm 
Arina Buzdalova, Carola Doerr, and Anna Rodionova 

BACS: A Thorough Study of Using Behavioral Sequences in ACS2 
Romain Orhand, Anne Jeannin-Girardon, Pierre Parrend, and Pierre Collet 

Dominance, Indicator and Decomposition based Search for Multi-objective QAP: Landscape Analysis and Automated Algorithm Selection 
Arnaud Liefooghe, Sébastien Verel, Bilel Derbel, Hernan Aguirre, and Kiyoshi Tanaka 

A Permutational Boltzmann Machine with Parallel Tempering for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems 
Mohammad Bagherbeik, Parastoo Ashtari, Seyed Farzad Mousavi, Kouichi Kanda, Hirotaka Tamura, and Ali Sheikholeslami 

A SHADE-Based Algorithm for Large Scale Global Optimization 
Oscar Pacheco-Del-Moral and Carlos A.  Coello Coello 

Lower Bounds for Non-Elitist Evolutionary Algorithms via Negative Multiplicative Drift 
Benjamin Doerr 

Optimising Chance-Constrained Submodular Functions Using Evolutionary Multi-Objective Algorithms 
Aneta Neumann and Frank Neumann 

A Study of Swarm Topologies and Their Influence on the Performance of Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimizers 
Diana Cristina Valencia-Rodríguez and Carlos A. Coello Coello  

Optimality-based Analysis of XCSF Compaction in Discrete Reinforcement Learning 
Jordan T. Bishop and Marcus Gallagher 

Adaptive Stochastic Natural Gradient Method for Optimizing Functions with Low Effective Dimensionality 
Teppei Yamaguchi, Kento Uchida, and Shinichi Shirakawa 

Multi-Objective Magnitude-Based Pruning for Latency-Aware Deep Neural Network Compression 
Wenjing Hong, Peng Yang, Yiwen Wang, and Ke Tang 

Fitness Landscape Features and Reward Shaping in Reinforcement Learning Policy Spaces 
Nathaniel du Preez-Wilkinson and Marcus Gallagher 

Automatic Configuration of a Multi-Objective Local Search for Imbalanced Classification 
Sara Tari, Holger Hoos, Julie Jacques, Marie-Elėonore Kessaci and Laetitia Jourdan 

Improving Many-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms by Means of Edge-Rotated Cones 
Yali Wang, André Deutz, Thomas Bäck and Michael Emmerich 

On Stochastic Fitness Landscapes: Local Optimality and Fitness Landscape Analysis for Stochastic Search Operators 
Brahim Aboutaib, Sébastien Verel, Cyril Fonlupt, Bilel Derbel, Arnaud Leifooghe and Belaïd Ahiod 

Nash Equilibrium as Solution in Supervised Classification 
Mihai-Alexandru Suciu and Rodica Ioana Lung 

A Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm for Reliable Facility Location Problem 
Han Zhang, Jialin Liu, and Xin Yao 

A Surrogate-assisted Evolutionary Algorithm with Random Feature Selection for Large-scale Expensive Problems 
Guoxia Fu, Chaoli Sun, Ying Tan, Guochen Zhang, and Yaochu Jin 

Optimising Tours for the Weighted Traveling Salesperson Problem and the Traveling Thief Problem: A Structural Comparison of Solutions 
Jakob Bossek, Aneta Neumann, and Frank Neumann 

Approximate Hypervolume calculation with guaranteed or confidence bounds 
Andrzej Jaszkiewicz, Robert Susmaga, and Piotr Zielniewicz

Human Derived Heuristic Enhancement of an Evolutionary Algorithm for the 2D Bin Packing Problem 
Nicholas Ross, Edward Keedwell, and Dragan Savic 

Deep Learning as a Competitive Feature-Free Approach for Automated Algorithm Selection on the Traveling Salesperson Problem 
Moritz V. Seiler, Janina Pohl, Jakob Bossek, Pascal Kerschke, and Heike Trautmann 

On the Design of a Partition Crossover for the Quadratic Assignment Problem 
Omar Abdelkafi, Bilel Derbel, Arnaud Liefooghe, and Darrell Whitley 

Warm-Start AlphaZero Self-Play Search Enhancements 
Hui Wang, Mike Preuss, and Aske Plaat 

Proposal of a Realistic Many-Objective Test Suite 
Weiyu Chen, Hisao Ishibuchi, and Ke Shang 

Improving Sampling in Evolution Strategies through Mixture-based Distributions built from Past Problem Instances 
Stephen Friess, Peter Tiňo, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, and Xin Yao 

A Committee of Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification in the Concurrent Presence of Feature and Label Noise 
Stanisław Kaźmierczak and Jacek Mańdziuk 

A New Paradigm in Interactive Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization 
Bhupinder Singh Saini, Jussi Hakanen, and Kaisa Miettinen 

High Dimensional Bayesian Optimization assisted by Principal Component Analysis 
Elena Raponi, Hao Wang, Mariusz Bujny, Simonetta Boria, and Carola Doerr 

Evaluation of a Permutation-Based Evolutionary Framework for Lyndon Factorizations 
Lily Major, Amanda Clare, Jacqueline W.  Daykin, Benjamin Mora, Leonel Jose  Peña Gamboa, and Christine Zarges 

Fitness landscape analysis of dimensionally-aware genetic programming featuring Feynman equations 
Marko Durasevic, Domagoj Jakobovic, Marcella Martins, Stjepan Picek, and Markus Wagner 

Biologically Plausible Learning of Text Representation with Spiking Neural Networks 
Marcin Białas, Marcin Michał  Mirończuk, and Jacek Mańdziuk 

Cooperative Co-Evolutionary GP for High Dimensional Problems 
Lino Rodriguez-Coayahuitl, Alicia Morales-Reyes, Hugo JEscalante, and Carlos A. Coello Coello  

Learning a Formula of Interpretability to Learn Interpretable Formulas 
Marco Virgolin, Andrea De Lorenzo, Eric Medvet, and Francesca Randone 

Runtime Analysis of a Heavy-Tailed  (1 + ( λ, λ )) Genetic Algorithm on Jump Functions 
Denis Antipov and Benjamin Doerr 

ClipUp: A Simple and Powerful Optimizer for Distribution-based Policy Evolution 
Nihat Engin Toklu, Paweł Liskowski, and Rupesh Kumar Srivastava 

First Steps Towards a Runtime Analysis When Starting With a Good Solution 
Denis Antipov, Maxim Buzdalov, and Benjamin Doerr 

Generic Relative Relations in Hierarchical Gene Expression Data Classification 
Marcin Czajkowski, Krzysztof Jurczuk, and Marek Kretowski 

Program Synthesis in a Continuous Space using Grammars and Variational Autoencoders 
David Lynch, James McDermott, and Michael O’Neill 

Generation of New Scalarizing Functions Using Genetic Programming 
Amín V. Bernabé Rodríguez and Carlos A. Coello Coello 

Analyzing the Components of Distributed Coevolutionary GANs Training 
Jamal Toutouh, Erik Hemberg, and Una-May O’reilly 

Neuromemetic Evolutionary Optimization 
Paweł Liskowski, Krzysztof Krawiec, and Nihat Engin Toklu 

Approximation Speed-up by Quadratization on LeadingOnes 
Andrew M. Sutton and Darrell Whitley 

Filter Sort is Ω( N3 )  in the Worst Case 
Sumit Mishra and Maxim Buzdalov 

Benchmarking a (μ + λ) Genetic Algorithm with Configurable Crossover Probability 
Furong Ye, Hao Wang, Carola Doerr, and Thomas Bäck 

Revisiting Population Models in Differential Evolution on a Limited Budget of Evaluations 
Ryoji Tanabe 

Evolutionary Graph-based V+E Optimization for Protection Against Epidemics 
Krzysztof Michalak 

Optimal Mutation Rates for the (1+λ) EA on OneMax 
Maxim Buzdalov and Carola Doerr 

A Search for Additional Structure: The Case of Cryptographic S-boxes 
Claude Carlet, Marko Djurasevic, Domagoj Jakobovic, and Stjepan Picek 

Parameter-less Population Pyramid for Permutation-based Problems 
Szymon Wozniak, Michal Przewozniczek, and Marcin Komarnicki