GECCO 2008 Proceedings--Table of Contents

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	Track 1: Ant Colony Optimization, Swarm Intelligence, and Artificial Immune Systems
	Track 2: Artificial Life, Evolutionary Robotics, Adaptive Behavior, Evolvable Hardware
	Track 3: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
	Track 4: Coevolution
	Track 5: Estimation of Distribution Algorithms
	Track 6: Evolution Strategies, Evolutionary Programming
	Track 7: Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization
	Track 8: Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization
	Track 9: Formal Theory
	Track 10: Generative and Developmental Systems
	Track 11: Genetic Algorithms
	Track 12: Genetic Programming
	Track 13: Genetics-Based Machine Learning and Learning Classifier Systems
	Track 14: Real-World Application
	Track 15: Search-based Software Engineering

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Track 5: Estimation of Distribution Algorithms

	GECCO 2008 Main Proceedings Table of Contents
	Posters

Papers
	On the Effectiveness of Distributions Estimated by Probabilistic Model Building (Page 391) Chung-Yao Chuang (National Chiao Tung University) Ying-ping Chen (National Chiao Tung University)
	UMDAs for Dynamic Optimization Problems (Page 399) Carlos M. Fernandes (Technical University of Lisbon and University of Granada) Claudio F. Lima (University of Algarve) Agostinho C. Rosa (Technical University of Lisbon and University of Granada)
	Improved EDNA (Estimation of Dependency Networks Algorithm) Using Combining Function with Bivariate Probability Distributions (Page 407) José A. Gámez (University of Castilla-La Mancha) Juan L. Mateo (University of Castilla-La Mancha) José M. Puerta (University of Castilla-La Mancha)
	Using Previous Models to Bias Structural Learning in the Hierarchical BOA (Page 415) Mark Hauschild (University of Missouri at St. Louis) Martin Pelikan (University of Missouri at St. Louis) Kumara Sastry (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) David E. Goldberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
	Going for the Big Fishes: Discovering and Combining Large Neutral and Massively Multimodal Building-Blocks with Model Based Macro-Mutation (Page 423) David Iclănzan (Babeş-Bolyai University) D. Dumitrescu (Babeş-Bolyai University)
	From Mating Pool Distributions to Model Overfitting (Page 431) Claudio F. Lima (University of Algarve) Fernando G. Lobo (University of Algarve) Martin Pelikan (University of Missouri at St. Louis)
	Investigating Restricted Tournament Replacement in ECGA for Non-Stationary Environments (Page 439) Claudio F. Lima (University of Algarve) Carlos Fernandes (Technical University of Lisbon and University of Granada) Fernando G. Lobo (University of Algarve)
	Finding Ground States of Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Spin Glasses with Hierarchical BOA and Genetic Algorithms (Page 447) Martin Pelikan (University of Missouri at St. Louis) Helmut G. Katzgraber (ETH Zürich) Sigismund Kobe (Technische Universität Dresden)
	iBOA: The Incremental Bayesian Optimization Algorithm (Page 455) Martin Pelikan (University of Missouri at St. Louis) Kumara Sastry (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) David E. Goldberg (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

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Posters
	An Application of a Multivariate Estimation of Distribution Algorithm to Cancer Chemotherapy (Page 463) Alexander Brownlee (The Robert Gordon University) Martin Pelikan (University of Missouri) John McCall (The Robert Gordon University) Andrei Petrovski (The Robert Gordon University)
	Optimisation and Fitness Modelling of Bio-control in Mushroom Farming Using a Markov Network EDA (Page 465) Alexander Brownlee (The Robert Gordon University) Yanghui Wu (Northwest A & F University) John McCall (The Robert Gordon University) Paul Godley (The University of Stirling) David Cairns (The University of Stirling) Julie Cowie (The University of Stirling)
	Improving the Efficiency of the Extended Compact Genetic Algorithm (Page 467) Thyago S. P. C. Duque (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) David E. Goldberg (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) Kumara Sastry (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
	An Estimation Distribution Algorithm with the Spearman's Rank Correlation Index (Page 469) Arturo Hernández Aguirre (Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas) Enrique Villa Diharce (Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas) Selma Barba Moreno (Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas)
	Data Clustering Using Virtual Population Based Incremental Learning Algorithm with Similarity Matrix Encoding Strategy (Page 471) Yi Hong (City University of Hong Kong) Sam Kwong (City University of Hong Kong) Hui Xiong (Rutgers University) Qingsheng Ren (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
	The Directional EDA for Global Optimization (Page 473) Pedro Mayorga Alvarez (Centre for Research in Mathematics) Arturo Hernández Aguirre (Centre for Research in Mathematics)
	An EDA Based on Local Markov Property and Gibbs Sampling (Page 475) Siddhartha Shakya (Intelligent Systems Research Centre) Roberto Santana (University of the Basque Country)
	Designing EDAs by Using the Elitist Convergent EDA Concept and the Boltzmann Distribution (Page 477) Sergio Ivvan Valdez Peña (Centre for Research in Mathematics) Arturo Hernández Aguirre (Centre for Research in Mathematics) Salvador Botello Rionda (Centre for Research in Mathematics)

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