SDR: A Better Trigger for Adaptive Variance Scaling in Normal EDAs (Page 492)
P. A. N. Bosman (Center for Mathematics and Computer Science)
J. Grahl (University of Mannheim)
F. Rothlauf (University of Mannheim)

Adaptive Variance Scaling in Continuous Multi-Objective Estimation-of-Distribution Algorithms (Page 500)
P. A. N. Bosman (Center for Mathematics and Computer Science)
D. Thierens (Utrecht University)

Addressing Sampling Errors and Diversity Loss in UMDA (Page 508)
J. Branke (University of Karlsruhe)
C. Lode (University of Karlsruhe)
J. L. Shapiro (University of Manchester)

Convergence Phases, Variance Trajectories, and Runtime Analysis of Continuous EDAs (Page 516)
J. Grahl (University of Mannheim)
P. A. N. Bosman (Center for Mathematics and Computer Science)
S. Minner (University of Mannheim)

Analyzing Probabilistic Models in Hierarchical BOA on Traps and Spin Glasses (Page 523)
M. Hauschild (University of Missouri at St. Louis)
M. Pelikan (University of Missouri at St. Louis)
C. F. Lima (University of Algarve)
K. Sastry (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

ECGA vs. BOA in Discovering Stock Market Trading Experts (Page 531)
P. Lipinski (University of Wroclaw)

Scalable Estimation-of-Distribution Program Evolution (Page 539)
M. Looks (Washington University in St. Louis)

Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms on Minimum Vertex Cover for Random Graphs (Page 547)
M. Pelikan (University of Missouri at St. Louis)
R. Kalapala (University of Missouri at St. Louis)
A. K. Hartmann (Universität Göttingen)

Order or Not: Does Parallelization of Model Building in hBOA Affect Its Scalability? (Page 555)
M. Pelikan (University of Missouri at St. Louis)
J. D. Laury, Jr. (University of Missouri at St. Louis)

Estimation of Fitness Landscape Contours in EAs (Page 562)
P. Pošík (Czech Technical University in Prague)
V. Franc (Fraunhofer-FIRST.IDA)

An Estimation of Distribution Algorithm with Guided Mutation for a Complex Flow Shop Scheduling Problem (Page 570)
A. Salhi (University of Essex)
J. A. V. Rodriguez (University of Nottingham)
Q. Zhang (University of Essex)

Towards Billion-Bit Optimization via a Parallel Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (Page 577)
K. Sastry (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
D. E. Goldberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
X. Llorà (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

An Application of EDA and GA to Dynamic Pricing (Page 585)
S. Shakya (Intelligent Systems Research Centre)
F. Oliveira (University of Warwick)
G. Owusu (Intelligent Systems Research Centre)

Multiobjective Real-coded Bayesian Optimization Algorithm Revisited: Diversity Preservation (Page 593)
C. W. Ahn (Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology)
R. S. Ramakrishna (Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology)

Population Sizing for Entropy-based Model Building in Discrete Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (Page 601)
T.-L. Yu (National Taiwan University)
K. Sastry (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
D. E. Goldberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
M. Pelikan (University of Missouri -- St. Louis)

Cross Entropy and Adaptive Variance Scaling in Continuous EDA (Page 609)
C. Yunpeng (Tsinghua University)
S. Xiaomin (Tsinghua University)
X. Hua (Tsinghua University)
J. Peifa (Tsinghua University)

Global Multiobjective Optimization via Estimation of Distribution Algorithm with Biased Initialization and Crossover (Page 617)
A. Zhou (University of Essex)
Q. Zhang (University of Essex)
Y. Jin (Honda Research Institute Europe)
B. Sendhoff (Honda Research Institute Europe)
E. Tsang (University of Essex)

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms: Posters

Why Is Parity Hard for Estimation of Distribution Algorithms? (Page 624)
D. Coffin (University College London)
R. E. Smith (University College London)

Investigation of Mutation Operators for the Bayesian Optimization Algorithm (Page 625)
E. M. Heien (Osaka University)
N. Fujimoto (Osaka University)
T. Hiroyasu (Doshisha University)

Meta-Optimizing Semantic Evolutionary Search (Page 626)
M. Looks (Washington University in St. Louis)

Variance Reduction in Meta-EDA (Page 627)
V. Nannen (Vrije Universiteit)
A. E. Eiben (Vrije Universiteit)

Obtaining Ground States of Ising Spin Glasses via Optimizing Bonds Instead of Spins (Page 628)
M. Pelikan (University of Missouri at St. Louis)
A. K. Hartmann (Universitaet Goettingen)

Dependency Trees, Permutations, and Quadratic Assignment Problem (Page 629)
M. Pelikan (University of Missouri at St. Louis)
S. Tsutsui (Hannan University)
R. Kalapala (University of Missouri at St. Louis)

A Synthesis of Optimal Stopping Time in Compact Genetic Algorithm Based on Real Options Approach (Page 630)
S. Rimcharoen (Chulalongkorn University)
D. Sutivong (Chulalongkorn University)
P. Chongstitvatana (Chulalongkorn University)

Migration of Probabilistic Models for Island-Based Bivariate EDA Algorithm (Page 631)
J. Schwarz (Brno University of Technology)
J. Jaroš (Brno University of Technology)
J. Očenášek (Kimotion Technologies)

Parameter Cross-validation and Early-Stopping in Univariate Marginal Distribution Algorithm (Page 632)
H. Wu (The University of Manchester)
J. L. Shapiro (The University of Manchester)