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Preliminary Program
All workshop sessions will be held at the Grand Hotel Overseas Traders Club. We are sorry to announce that Professor Marco Dorigo recently cancelled his whole trip to China due to personal reasons. Hence, his talks at the IWNICA'10 have been cancelled accordingly.

October 22
(Friday)

11: 00am - 6:00pm

Registration

October 23
(Saturday)

8: 30am - 9:00am

Opening and Introduction (Prof. Xin Yao)

Session 1 Chair: Prof. Xufa Wang (USTC)

9:00am-10:30am

Eugene Santos Jr.

Building and Evolving Models from Multiple (Conflicting) Information Sources

10:30am-11:00am

Tea Break

11:00am-12:30pm

Yaochu Jin

Evolutionary Multi-objective Machine Learning

12:30pm-2:00pm

Lunch Break

Session 2 Chair: Dr. Bin Li (USTC)

2:00pm-3:30pm

Garrison W. Greenwood

Evolvable Hardware: Using Nature to Help Design and Maintain Complex Systems

3:30pm-4:00pm

Tea Break

4:00pm-5:30pm

Jong-Hwan Kim

Intelligence Technology for Cyber-Physical Robot System

5:30pm-6:30pm

Free Reception (networking opportunities, drinks available)

6:30pm

Dinner

October 24
(Sunday)

Session 3 Chair: Prof. Xiaoping Chen (USTC)

9:00am-10:30am

Kay Chen Tan

Advances in Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization

10:30am-11:00am

Tea Break

11:00am-12:30pm

Jong-Hwan Kim

Evolutionary Multi-objective Footstep Planning for Humanoid Robots

12:30pm-2:00pm

Lunch Break

Session 4 Chair: Prof. Enhong Chen (USTC)

2:00pm-3:30pm

Kalyanmoy Deb

Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization (EMO) for finding Multiple Pareto-optimal Solutions

3:30pm-4:00pm

Tea Break

4:00pm-5:30pm

Jose A. Lozano

A Gentle Introduction to Estimation of Distribution Algorithms

5:30pm-6:30pm

Panel 1 (Why Evolutionary Computation)
Chair: Prof. Garrison W. Greenwood (Portland State University)
Panelists: All invited speakers

6:30pm

Dinner

October 25
(Monday)

Session 5 Chair: Dr. Thomas Weise (USTC)

9:00am-10:30am

Thomas
Bartz-Beielstein

Tuning and Statistical Analysis of Optimization Algorithms - The Sequential Parameter Optimization Toolbox

10:30am-11:00am

Tea Break

11:00am-12:30pm

Thomas
Bartz-Beielstein

A hands on tutorial on SPO

12:30pm-2:00pm

Lunch Break

Session 6 Chair: Dr. Ke Tang (USTC)

2:00pm-3:30pm

Kalyanmoy Deb

Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization (EMO) for finding Preferred Pareto-optimal Solutions

3:30pm-4:00pm

Tea Break

4:00pm-5:30pm

Andries Engelbrecht

An Introduction to Particle Swarm Optimization

5:30pm-6:30pm

Panel 2 (Real World Applications of EC)
Chair: Prof. Yaochu Jin (USTC and University of Surrey)
Panelists: All invited speakers

6:30pm

Dinner

October 26
(Tuesday)

Session 7 Chair: Prof. Thomas Bartz-Beielstein (Cologne University of Applied Sciences)

9:00am-10:30am

Hisao Ishibuchi

Evolutionary Design of Accurate and Interpretable Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems

10:30am-11:00am

Tea Break

11:00am-12:30pm

Uwe Aickelin

The last 10 years of Artificial Immune System research

12:30pm-2:00pm

Lunch Break

Session 8 Chair: Prof. Garry Greenwood (Portland State University)

2:00pm-3:30pm

Uwe Aickelin

Anomaly Detection using Dendritic Cells

3:30pm-4:00pm

Tea Break

4:00pm-5:30pm

Andries Engelbrecht

Particle Swarm Optimization as a Universal Optimizer

5:30pm-6:30pm

Panel 3 (Writing High Quality Technical Papers - Communicating with the Editors-in-Chief)
Chair: Prof. Eugene Santos Jr. (Dartmouth College)
Panelists: All in invited speakers, who are either editors-in-chief or associate editors

6:30pm

Dinner

October 27
(Wednesday)

Session 9 Chair: Prof. Andries Engelbrecht (University of Pretoria)

9:00am-10:30am

Hisao Ishibuchi

How to Combine Local Search with Evolutionary Algorithms for Multi-objective Combinatorial Optimization

10:30am-11:00am

Tea Break

11:00am-12:30pm

Jose A. Lozano

Solving three bioinformatics problems with EDAs

12:30pm-2:00pm

Lunch Break

Session 10 Chair: Prof. Uwe Aickelin (University of Nottingham)

2:00pm-3:30pm

Xin Yao

What Can We Learn From Evolutionary Optimisation?

3:30pm-4:00pm

Tea Break

4:00pm-5:30pm

Xin Yao

Multiobjective Neural Network Ensembles based on Regularized Negative Correlation Learning

5:30pm-6:30pm

Panel 4 (Future Challenges and Hot Topics in Evolutionary Computation)
Chair: Prof. Hisao Ishibuchi (Osaka Prefecture University)
Panelists: All invited speakers

6:30pm

Dinner

 

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