Genetic and Evolutionary Computation - GECCO 2004, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Seattle, WA, USA, June 26-30, 2004, Proceedings, Part I

A-Life, Adaptive Behavior, Agents, and Ant Colony Optimization.- Efficient Evaluation Functions for Multi-rover Systems.- A Particle Swarm Model of Organizational Adaptation.- Finding Maximum Cliques with Distributed Ants.- Ant System for the k-Cardinality Tree Problem.- A Hybrid Ant Colony Optimisation Technique for Dynamic Vehicle Routing.- Cooperative Problem Solving Using an Agent-Based Market.- Cultural Evolution for Sequential Decision Tasks: Evolving Tic-Tac-Toe Players in Multi-agent Systems.- Artificial Life and Natural Intelligence.- Bluenome: A Novel Developmental Model of Artificial Morphogenesis.- Adaptively Choosing Neighbourhood Bests Using Species in a Particle Swarm Optimizer for Multimodal Function Optimization.- Better Spread and Convergence: Particle Swarm Multiobjective Optimization Using the Maximin Fitness Function.- Evolving a Self-Repairing, Self-Regulating, French Flag Organism.- The Kalman Swarm.- Adaptive and Evolvable Network Services.- Grammatical Swarm.- A New Universal Cellular Automaton Discovered by Evolutionary Algorithms.- An Interactive Artificial Ant Approach to Non-photorealistic Rendering.- Automatic Creation of Team-Control Plans Using an Assignment Branch in Genetic Programming.- Implications of Epigenetic Learning Via Modification of Histones on Performance of Genetic Programming.- Using Clustering Techniques to Improve the Performance of a Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimizer.- SWAF: Swarm Algorithm Framework for Numerical Optimization.- A-Life, Adaptive Behavior, Agents, and Ant Colony Optimization - Posters.- Autonomous Agent for Multi-objective Optimization.- An Evolved Autonomous Controller for Satellite Task Scheduling.- Multi-agent Foreign Exchange Market Modelling Via GP.- An Evolutionary Autonomous Agent with Visual Cortex and Recurrent Spiking Columnar Neural Network.- Arguments for ACO's Success.- Solving Engineering Design Problems by Social Cognitive Optimization.- Artificial Immune Systems.- Vulnerability Analysis of Immunity-Based Intrusion Detection Systems Using Evolutionary Hackers.- Constructing Detectors in Schema Complementary Space for Anomaly Detection.- Real-Valued Negative Selection Algorithm with Variable-Sized Detectors.- An Investigation of R-Chunk Detector Generation on Higher Alphabets.- A Comment on Opt-AiNET: An Immune Network Algorithm for Optimisation.- Artificial Immune Systems - Posters.- A Novel Immune Feedback Control Algorithm and Its Applications.- Biological Applications.- Computer-Aided Peptide Evolution for Virtual Drug Design.- Automating Genetic Network Inference with Minimal Physical Experimentation Using Coevolution.- A Genetic Approach for Gene Selection on Microarray Expression Data.- Fuzzy Dominance Based Multi-objective GA-Simplex Hybrid Algorithms Applied to Gene Network Models.- Selection-Insertion Schemes in Genetic Algorithms for the Flexible Ligand Docking Problem.- A GA Approach to the Definition of Regulatory Signals in Genomic Sequences.- Systems Biology Modeling in Human Genetics Using Petri Nets and Grammatical Evolution.- Evolutionary Computation Techniques for Optimizing Fuzzy Cognitive Maps in Radiation Therapy Systems.- Identification of Informative Genes for Molecular Classification Using Probabilistic Model Building Genetic Algorithm.- GA-Facilitated Knowledge Discovery and Pattern Recognition Optimization Applied to the Biochemistry of Protein Solvation.- Genetic Programming Neural Networks as a Bioinformatics Tool for Human Genetics.- Evolving Better Multiple Sequence Alignments.- Optimizing Topology and Parameters of Gene Regulatory Network Models from Time-Series Experiments.- Comparing Genetic Programming and Evolution Strategies on Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks.- An Evolutionary Approach with Pharmacophore-Based Scoring Functions for Virtual Database Screening.- Biological Applications -A-Life, Adaptive Behavior, Agents, and Ant Colony Optimization.- Efficient Evaluation Functions for Multi-rover Systems.- A Particle Swarm Model of Organizational Adaptation.- Finding Maximum Cliques with Distributed Ants.- Ant System for the k-Cardinality Tree Problem.- A Hybrid Ant Colony Optimisation Technique for Dynamic Vehicle Routing.- Cooperative Problem Solving Using an Agent-Based Market.- Cultural Evolution for Sequential Decision Tasks: Evolving Tic-Tac-Toe Players in Multi-agent Systems.- Artificial Life and Natural Intelligence.- Bluenome: A Novel Developmental Model of Artificial Morphogenesis.- Adaptively Choosing Neighbourhood Bests Using Species in a Particle Swarm Optimizer for Multimodal Function Optimization.- Better Spread and Convergence: Particle Swarm Multiobjective Optimization Using the Maximin Fitness Function.- Evolving a Self-Repairing, Self-Regulating, French Flag Organism.- The Kalman Swarm.- Adaptive and Evolvable Network Services.- Grammatical Swarm.- A New Universal Cellular Automaton Discovered by Evolutionary Algorithms.- An Interactive Artificial Ant Approach to Non-photorealistic Rendering.- Automatic Creation of Team-Control Plans Using an Assignment Branch in Genetic Programming.- Implications of Epigenetic Learning Via Modification of Histones on Performance of Genetic Programming.- Using Clustering Techniques to Improve the Performance of a Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimizer.- SWAF: Swarm Algorithm Framework for Numerical Optimization.- A-Life, Adaptive Behavior, Agents, and Ant Colony Optimization - Posters.- Autonomous Agent for Multi-objective Optimization.- An Evolved Autonomous Controller for Satellite Task Scheduling.- Multi-agent Foreign Exchange Market Modelling Via GP.- An Evolutionary Autonomous Agent with Visual Cortex and Recurrent Spiking Columnar Neural Network.- Arguments for ACO's Success.- Solving Engineering Design Problems by Social Cognitive Optimization.- Artificial Immune Systems.- Vulnerability Analysis of Immunity-Based Intrusion Detection Systems Using Evolutionary Hackers.- Constructing Detectors in Schema Complementary Space for Anomaly Detection.- Real-Valued Negative Selection Algorithm with Variable-Sized Detectors.- An Investigation of R-Chunk Detector Generation on Higher Alphabets.- A Comment on Opt-AiNET: An Immune Network Algorithm for Optimisation.- Artificial Immune Systems - Posters.- A Novel Immune Feedback Control Algorithm and Its Applications.- Biological Applications.- Computer-Aided Peptide Evolution for Virtual Drug Design.- Automating Genetic Network Inference with Minimal Physical Experimentation Using Coevolution.- A Genetic Approach for Gene Selection on Microarray Expression Data.- Fuzzy Dominance Based Multi-objective GA-Simplex Hybrid Algorithms Applied to Gene Network Models.- Selection-Insertion Schemes in Genetic Algorithms for the Flexible Ligand Docking Problem.- A GA Approach to the Definition of Regulatory Signals in Genomic Sequences.- Systems Biology Modeling in Human Genetics Using Petri Nets and Grammatical Evolution.- Evolutionary Computation Techniques for Optimizing Fuzzy Cognitive Maps in Radiation Therapy Systems.- Identification of Informative Genes for Molecular Classification Using Probabilistic Model Building Genetic Algorithm.- GA-Facilitated Knowledge Discovery and Pattern Recognition Optimization Applied to the Biochemistry of Protein Solvation.- Genetic Programming Neural Networks as a Bioinformatics Tool for Human Genetics.- Evolving Better Multiple Sequence Alignments.- Optimizing Topology and Parameters of Gene Regulatory Network Models from Time-Series Experiments.- Comparing Genetic Programming and Evolution Strategies on Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks.- An Evolutionary Approach with Pharmacophore-Based Scoring Functions for Virtual Database Screening.- Biological Applications - Posters.- Statistical Test-Based Evolutionary Segmentation of Yeast Genome.- Equilibrium and Extinction in a Trisexual Diploid Mating System: An Investigation.- On Parameterizing Models of Antigen-Antibody Binding Dynamics on Surfaces - A Genetic Algorithm Approach and the Need for Speed.-