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Evolutionary Algorithms in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments

Many real-world optimisation problems are characterised by some type of uncertainty that needs to be accounted for by the algorithm used to solve the problem. These uncertainties include noise (noisy optimisation), approximations (surrogate-assisted optimisation), dynamics (dynamic/online optimisation problems) as well as the requirement for robust solutions (robust optimisation). Dealing with these uncertainties has become increasingly popular in stochastic optimisation in recent years and a variety of new techniques have been proposed. The objective of EvoSTOC is to foster interest in metaheuristics and stochastic optimisation for stochastic and dynamic environments and to provide an opportunity for researchers to meet and to present and discuss the state-of-the-art in the field. EvoSTOC accepts contributions, both empirical and theoretical in nature, for any work relating to nature-inspired, metaheuristics and stochastic techniques applied to a domain characterised by one or more types of uncertainty.

Areas of Interest and Contributions

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, any of the following in the realm of nature-inspired, metaheuristics and stochastic computation:

PUBLICATION DETAILS

Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of EvoStar, published in a volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, which will be available at the Conference.Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of the reviewers comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference and attend the conference and present the work.The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper.

Submission Details

Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. They will be peer reviewed by members of the program committee. The reviewing process will be double-blind, so please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper.

Submit your manuscript in Springer LNCS format.

Please provide up to five keywords in your Abstract

Page limit: 12 pages to http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps14/.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 1 November 2013 11 November 2013
Notification: 06 January 2014
Camera ready: 01 February 2014
EvoSTOC: 23-25 April 2014

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information on the conference and co-located events can be
found in: http://www.evostar.org

Programme Committee

EvoSTOC Programme

Fri 1000-1140  EvoSTOC
Chair:  Anabela Simões

Co-evolution of sensory system and signal processing for optimal wing shape control    Olga Smalikho, Markus Olhofer
This paper demonstrates the applicability of evolutionary computation methods to co-evolve a sensor morphology and a suitable control structure to optimally adjust a virtual adaptive wing structure. In contrast to approaches in which the structure of a sensor configuration is fixed early in the design stages, we target the simultaneous generation of information acquisition and information processing based on the optimization of a target function. We consider two aspects as main advantages. First the ability to generate optimal environmental sensors in the sense that the control structure can optimally utilize the information provided and secondly the abdication of detailed prior knowledge about the problem at hand. In this work we investigate the expected high correlation between the sensor morphology and the signal processing structures as well the quantity and quality of the information gathered from the environment.

Infeasibility Driven Evolutionary Algorithm with Feed-Forward Prediction Strategy for Dynamic Constrained Optimization Problems  Patryk Filipiak, Piotr Lipinski
This paper proposes a modification of Infeasibility Driven Evolutionary Algorithm that applies the anticipation mechanism following Feed-forward Prediction Strategy. The presented approach allows reacting on environmental changes more rapidly by directing some individuals into the areas of most probable occurrences of future optima. Also a novel population segmentation on exploring, exploiting and anticipating fractions is introduced to assure a better diversification of individuals and thus improve the ability to track moving optima. The experiments performed on the popular benchmarks confirmed the significant improvement in Dynamic Constrained Optimization Problems when using the proposed approach.

Identifying the Robust Number of Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles in Container Terminals     Shayan Kavakeb, Trung Thanh Nguyen, Zaili Yang, Ian Jenkinson
The purpose of this research is to provide an improved Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) in combination with Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) to identify the robust number of a new type of intelligent vehicles in container terminals. This type of vehicles, named Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAVs), has been developed in a European project. This research extends our previous study on combining MCS with EAs. This paper has three main contributions: first, it proposes a dynamic strategy to adjust the number of samples used by MCS to improve the performance of the EA; second, it incorporates different robustness measures into the EA to produce different robust solutions depending on user requirements; and third, it investigates the relation between different robust solutions using statistical analyses to provide insights into what would be the most appropriate robust solutions for port operators. These contributions have been verified using empirical experiments. Keywords: Robust optimisation, Uncertainty, Evolutionary Algorithms, Monte Carlo Simulation, Fleet Sizing