- title = "GECCO Comp '14: Proceedings of the 2014 conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation companion",
- year = "2014",
- editor = "Dirk Arnold and Mengjie Zhang and Ryan Urbanowicz and Muhammad Iqbal and Kamran Shafi and Forrest Stonedahl and William Rand and Tea Tusar and Boris Naujoks and David Walker and Richard Everson and Jonathan Fieldsend and Stefan Wagner and Michael Affenzeller and Zhun Fan and Yaochu Jin and Hod Lipson and Erik Goodman and Alexandru-Adrian Tantar and Emilia Tantar and Peter A. N. Bosman and Kent McClymont and Kevin Sim and Gabriela Ochoa and Ed Keedwell and Anna I Esparcia-Alcazar and Frank W. Moore and Jaume Bacardit and Ignacio Arnaldo and Kalyan Veeramachaneni and Una-May O'Reilly and Stephen L. Smith and Stefano Cagnoni and Robert M. Patton and Steven Gustafson and Ekaterina Vladislavleva and John Woodward and Jerry Swan and Earl Barr and Krzysztof Krawiec and Chris Simons and John Clark and Dirk Sudholt and Anna Esparcia and Aniko Ekart and Carola Doerr and Anne Auger",
- address = "Vancouver, BC, Canada",
- publisher_address = "New York, NY, USA",
- month = "12-16 " # jul,
- organisation = "SIGEVO",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Keynotes and invited talk, ant colony optimization and swarm intelligence, artificial immune systems, artificial life, robotics, and evolvable hardware, biological and biomedical applications, digital entertainment technologies and arts, estimation of distribution algorithms, evolution strategies and evolutionary programming, evolutionary combinatorial optimization and metaheuristics, evolutionary machine learning, evolutionary multiobjective optimization, generative and developmental systems, integrative genetic and evolutionary computation, parallel evolutionary systems, real world applications, search based software engineering, self-* search, theory, Introductory tutorials, Advanced tutorials, Specialized tutorials, 17th annual international workshop on learning classifier systems, Eighth Annual Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (ECoMASS), student workshop, VizGEC: Workshop on visualisation in genetic and evolutionary computation, Workshop on Evolutionary Computation Software Systems (EvoSoft), evolutionary synthesis of dynamical systems, Workshop on Green and Efficient Energy Applications of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GreenGEC), Workshop on Problem Understanding and Real-world Optimisation (PURO), Workshop on genetic and evolutionary computation in defense, security and risk management (SecDef), Workshop on Evolutionary Computation for Big Data and Big Learning, Workshop on Medical Applications of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (MedGEC), Workshop on Symbolic Regression and Modelling, 4th workshop on evolutionary computation for the automated design of algorithms, Workshop on Metaheuristic Design Patterns (MetaDeeP), Late breaking abstracts workshop, Women@GECCO 2014",
- isbn13 = "978-1-4503-2881-4",
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URL = "
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2598394",
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DOI = "
doi:10.1145/2598394",
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abstract = "It is my pleasure to welcome you to Philadelphia for
the 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference (GECCO-2012). This is the first time GECCO
has been held in Philly. We very much you hope you
enjoy this historic American city and all it has to
offer.
This will be my 14th year attending GECCO. I have contributed a number of papers and have enjoyed many thought-provoking presentations over the years. GECCO has played a very important role in my research program and in the training of many of my students and postdocs. I agreed to serve as General Chair of GECCO-2012 because it was time to give back to the community I have enjoyed being a part of since 1999.
Terence Soule served as the editor-in-chief this year and did a very skillful job maintaining the high quality of the conference. GECCO-2012 accepted 172 full papers for oral presentation out of a total of 467 submitted. This is an acceptance rate of less than 37percent. I am very thankful to Terry, Anne Auger, our Proceedings Chair, and all the track chairs for their hard work managing the review, selection and scheduling process for the scientific papers.
One of the highlights of every GECCO is the free tutorials and the free workshops held during the first two days of the conference. I found these to be incredibly helpful when I was still learning about the field.",
- notes = "Distributed at GECCO-2014.",
