GECCO 2024

GECCO 2024 Booklet Schedule

Women at GECCO 2024 Sunday 14 July 2024

Panel discussion Ying Bi, Giorgia Nadizar, Gabriela Ochoa, Emma Hart

NEWK Neuroevolution at work Monday 15 July 2024

Julia Handl and Mengjie Zhang

Giorgia Nadizar (paper)

Mohammed Ghaith Altarabichi (paper)

Arthur Guijt (paper)

Anil Yaman (paper)

Romain Claret (paper)

Travis Desell (paper)

Mark A Coletti (paper)

Mengjie Zhang

GP 1 Tuesday, 16 July 11:00-12:20

Chair: Ryan Urbanowicz papers ref ref ref ref

GP 2 Tuesday, 16 July Tuesday, 16:30-17:50

GP Track and GP2 Session Chair: Ting Hu

Ting Hu with presenter Steven Jorgensen

Thomas Helmuth

Yi Mei (ref)

Gloria Pietropolli, Giorgia Nadizar, Steven Jorgensen (ref)

Longfei Felix Yan (ref)

Thomas Helmuth (ref)

ECRG Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning Victoria University of Wellington

Jordan MacLachlan Mengjie Zhang Will N. Browne Grant Dick Andrew Lensen
Yanan Sun Yi Mei Bing Xue Xiaoying Gao Ying Bi Chunyu Wang Bach Nguyen Hengzhe Zhang

Melbourne

five to ten

EEAI Embodied and Evolved Artificial Intelligence

People at Embodied and Evolved AI workshop 2024

Yue Xie, Gusz Eiben, David Howard, Will N. Browne, Emma Hart

More photos from the Embodied Evolved AI GECCO 2024 workshop.

EML XAI Evolutionary Machine Learning for Interpretable and eXplainable AI

People at Evolutionary Machine Learning for Interpretable and eXplainable AI tutorial, WillBrowne 2024

Keynote 2, 17 July Lessons from curiosity-driven physics research

Suzie Sheehy

GP 3 Wednesday, July 17, 11:00-12:20

Kirill Antonov (ref)

Multiview Symbolic Regression (ref)

Kei Sen Fong (ref)

Thalea Schlender (ref)

GP 4 Wednesday, July 17, 14:30-15:50

GP 4 session chair: Giovanni Squillero

Wolfgang Banzhaf (ref)

Andrew Ni (ref)

Guilherme Seidyo Imai Aldeia (ref)

Humies
21st Human-Competitive Results Awards Competition
Finals Wednesday, 17 July 2024, 16:30-18:00

Chair of the Humies Judging Panel Erik Goodman

David Howard Entry video BRONZE (Joint) (see also below)

Chao Qian Entry video BRONZE (Joint) (see also below)

Roy de Winter Entry video

Yi Mei Entry (ref) video

Francisco Javier Ruiz Ortega, Eddie Clemente, Alicia Martinez Rebollar, Jose Jasson Flores Prieto
Entry (ref) video

Dennis G. Wilson Entry (ref) video GOLD (see also below)

Zhichao Lu Entry video

Evolved ten euro coin Entry (ref) video SILVER (see also below)

EML 6 Thursday, July 18, 09:00-10:00

Chair EML 6 Mario Andres Munoz

Harsh Bandhey

Amanda Bertschinger (ref)

Shuaiqun Pan

Pivithuru Thejan Amarasinghe

SIGEVO Keynote Una-May O'Reilly
Coevolution in Natural and Artificial Systems

ACM SIGEVO chair Peter Bosman

Una-May O'Reilly

GECCO 2024

GECCO 2024 General Chair Xiaodong Li

GECCO 2024 Local Chair Markus Wagner

Local Team

Hongjie Xu, Andrew Ciezak, Parham Moradi, Alex Iliadis, Aidan Blair,
Vic Ciesielski, Kendall Taylor, Yameng Peng, Lia Song, Ruimin Chu, Yunzhuang Shen

Editor-in-Chief Julia Handl

Summer School Organizer Miguel Nicolau

ACM SIGEVO Summer School (S3) 2024 Melbourne

Summer School

Prizes

ACM SIGEVO Outstanding Contribution Award

Anne Auger Franz Rothlauf

Gabriela Ochoa

ACM SIGEVO Dissertation Award

Bing Xue presenting the awards

Student Workshop

Amir H Gandomi presenting prize for "Evolving Quantum Logic Gate Circuits in Qiskit" to Thomas Robert Newbold, Alberto Moraglio

GECCO Competions

Prizes presented by Hemant Kumar Singh and Julia Handl

Humies

Erik Goodman presenting Bronze (joint) prize to David Howard for
Freeform generative design of complex functional structures doi:10.1038/s41598-024-62830-5 (see also above)

Erik Goodman presenting Bronze (joint) prize to Chao Qian for
Macro Placement by Wire-Mask-Guided Black-Box Optimization NeurIPS 2023 (see also above)

Erik Goodman presenting Silver prize to Penousal Machado for
From Pixels to Metal: AI-Empowered Numismatic Art bibtex (see also above)

Erik Goodman presenting Gold prize to Dennis G. Wilson for
Evolutionary design of explainable algorithms for biomedical image segmentation doi:10.1038/s41467-023-42664-x (see also above)

Best Papers

Yi Mei presenting best ECOM paper prize for "Letting a Large Neighborhood Search for an Electric Dial-A-Ride Problem Fly: On-The-Fly Charging Station Insertion" to Maria Bresich

Xiaodong Li presenting best EML paper prize for "Survival-LCS: A Rule-Based Machine Learning Approach to Survival Analysis" to Ryan J. Urbanowicz

Best EMO paper prize for "Analysis of Real-World Constrained Multi-Objective Problems and Performance Comparison of Multi-Objective Algorithms" Ke Shang

Julia Handl presenting best ENUM and Swarm Intelligence paper prize for "Markov Chain-based Optimization Time Analysis of Bivalent Ant Colony Optimization for Sorting and LeadingOnes" to Matthias Kergassner

Xiaodong Li and Julia Handl presenting best GA and Theory paper prize for "Evolutionary Computation Meets Graph Drawing: Runtime Analysis for Crossing Minimisation on Layered Graph Drawings" to Jakob Baumann

Xiaodong Li presenting best General Evolutionary Computation and Hybrids and Neuroevolution paper prize for "Tensorized NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies for GPU Acceleration" to Ran Cheng and Enyu Liu

Ting Hu and Xiaodong Li presenting best GP paper prize for "Learning Traffic Signal Control via Genetic Programming" to Mengjie Zhang

Julia Handl and Xiaodong Li presenting best RWA paper prize for "Quality Diversity Approaches for Time-Use Optimisation to Improve Health Outcomes" to Frank Neumann

FOGA 27-29 August 2025

Anna V. Kononova

GECCO 2025

Bogdan Filipic

Acknowledgements

My thanks to Mengjie Zhang, Will Browne, Yue Xie, and Bing Xue

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