Program:

Monday

• 09.00-09.30 - Registration, coffee and pastries, Landing
• 09.30-11.00 – Session #1.1 – Tree-Based Approaches, Upper Lounge
  • 9.30-10.00 – Jonathan E. Fieldsend; “On the active use of an ND-tree-based archive for multi-objective optimisation”
  • 10.00-10.30 – Francisco Miranda, Evgheni Polisciuc, and Nuno Lourenco; “HyTEA: Hybrid Tree Evolutionary Algorithm”
  • 10.30-11.00 - Rodica Ioana Lung and Mihai-Alexandru Suciu; “A Game Theoretic Decision Tree for Binary Classification”
• 11.00-11.30 – Coffee, Landing
• 11.30-13.00 – Plenary Talk #1 – Emma Hart, Upper Lounge
  An Evolutionary Approach to the Autonomous Design and Fabrication of Robots in Unknown Environments
• 13.00-14.00 – Buffet Lunch, Landing
• 14.00-15.00 – Session #1.2 – Machine Learning, Upper Lounge
  • 14.00-14.30 Jack D. Saunders and Alex A. Freitas; "Evaluating a New Genetic Algorithm for Automated Machine Learning in Positive-Unlabelled Learning"
  • 14.30-15.00 - Tara Vanhatalo, Pierrick Legrand, Myriam Desainte-Catherine, Pierre Hanna, Antoine Brusco, Guillaume Pille, Yann Bayle; “Neural Network-based Virtual Analog Modelling”
• 15.00-15.30 – Cream Tea, Landing
• 15.30-16.30 – Session #1.3 – Electric Vehicle Applications, Upper Lounge
  • 15.30-16.00 Darren M. Chitty and Ed Keedwell; "Defining a Quality Measure Within Crossover: An Electric Bus Scheduling Case Study"
  • 16.00-16.30 - Imene Zaidi, Ammar Oulamara, Lhassane Idoumghar, and Michel Basset; "Maximizing the Number of Satisfied Charging Demands in Electric Vehicle Charging Demands in Electric Vehicle Charging Scheduling Problem"
• 16.30-17.00 – Demonstration
  • Matt Johns and Edward Keedwell, "Augmented Evolutionary Intelligence Demonstration", Walter Daw Room
• 17.00 - Drinks Reception, Woodbridge Room
• 18.45 - Ghosts and Legends Halloween Tour
  Halloween ‘Ghosts and Legends’ walking tour of Exeter. Participation is included in your registration, but we will need to walk from the conference venue to the Cathedral (approx. 15-20 minutes). Please bring appropriate footwear and clothing in case it is raining (it is England in Autumn!!).

Tuesday

• 09.00-09.30 - Registration, coffee and pastries, Landing
• 09.30-11.00 – Session #2.1 – Swarm Intelligence, Upper Lounge
  • 9.30-10.00 - E. Lutton, S. Al-Maliki, J. Louchet, A. Tonda, and F.P. Vidal; "Fine-Grained Cooperative Coevolution in a Single Population: Between Evolution and Swarm Intelligence"
  • 10.00-10.30 - Naser Ghannad, Roland Deguio, and Pierre Parrend; "One-Class Ant-Miner: Selection of Majority Class Rules for Binary Rule-based Classification"
  • 10.30-11.00 - N. Kassabian, Z. Hammoudan, O. Grunder, L.Idoumghar; "Bee Colony Algorithm for Solving the Hazardous Container Stacking Problem in Tripoli-Lebanon seaport"
• 11.00-11.30 – Coffee, Landing
• 11.30-13.00 – Plenary Talk #2 – Mathias Kern, Upper Lounge
  Optimisation Challenges at BT
• 13.00-14.00 – Buffet Lunch, Landing
• 14.00-15.00 – Session #2.2 – Multi/Many Objectives, Upper Lounge
  • 14.00-14.30 - James Sakal, Jonathan Fieldsend, and Edward Keedwell; “Towards a Many-Objective Optimiser for University Course Timetabling”
  • 14.30-15.00 - Alexander Evans and Tinkle Chugh; “Empirical Investigation of MOEAs for Multi-objective Design of Experiments”
• 15.00-15.30 – Cream Tea, Landing
• 15.30-16.30 – Session #2.3 – Bioinformatics, Upper Lounge
  • 15.30-16.00 - Romain Michelucci, Jean-Paul Comet, and Denis Pallez; “Evolutionary continuous optimization of Hybrid Gene Regulatory Networks”
  • 16.00-16.30 - Muhammad Junaid Ali, Laurent Moalic, Mokhtar Essaid,and Lhassane Idoumghar; “Designing Attention based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures for Medical Image Classification using Genetic Algorithm based on Variable Length-encoding scheme"
• 16.30- 17.00 – Demonstration
  • Tara Vanhatalo and Pierrick Legrand, "Neural Network-Based Virtual Analog Modeling Applied to Guitar Amplifier Emulation"
• 18.00 Gala Dinner, Woodbridge Room
  The gala dinner will be held in the Woodbridge Room at Reed Hall on the evening of Tuesday 1st November. The bar will be open from 6pm with dinner served at 7pm.

Wednesday

• 09.00-09.30 - Registration, coffee and pastries, Landing
• 09.30-10.30 – Session #3.1 – Routing/Path Planning , Upper Lounge
  • 9.30-10.00 - Mahmoud Golabi, Soheila Ghambari , Shilan Amir Ashayeri, Laetitia Jourdan , and Lhassane Idoumghar; "A Multi-objective 3D Offline UAV Path Planning Problem with Variable Flying Altitude"
  • 10.00-10.30 - Quentin Pena, Aziz Moukrim, and Mehdi Serairi; "An elitist non-dominated heuristic resolution for the dynamic asset protection problem"
• 10.30-11.00 - Closing Session
• 11.00-11.30 – Coffee, Landing
• 11.30-12.00 – Travel to Exeter St Davids,
  Convene at front of Reed Hall
• 12.15-13.00 – Coach to Exmouth Marina
• 13.00-16.00 – Exe Estuary Boat Trip & BBQ
  The excursion will take place from 1pm to 4pm on Wednesday 2nd November from Exmouth Marina EX8 1FE. Transportation to and from Exmouth is included in your registration, however you are welcome to make your own way there. This will be a boat trip along the Exe Estuary with a BBQ lunch onboard. The vessel has covered and uncovered sections, so please bring appropriate clothing (i.e. warm and waterproof clothing and appropriate footwear).
• 16.00-17.00 – Coach back to Reed Hall
• 17.00 – Close