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Tutorials at PPSN 2016
PPSN 2016 hosts a total number of 16 tutorials covering a broad range of current research in evolutionary computation. The tutorials range from introductory to advanced and specialized but can all be attended ...
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Environment-Driven Embodied Evolution in a Population of Autonomous Agents
This paper is concerned with a fixed-size population of autonomous agents facing unknown, possibly changing, environments. The motivation is to design an embodied evolutionary algorithm that can cope with the ...
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A Statistical Learning Perspective of Genetic Programming
This paper proposes a theoretical analysis of Genetic Programming (GP) from the perspective of statistical learning theory, a well grounded mathematical toolbox for machine learning. By computing the Vapnik-Ch...
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Unsupervised Learning of Echo State Networks: A Case Study in Artificial Embryogeny
Echo State Networks (ESN) have demonstrated their efficiency in supervised learning of time series: a ”reservoir” of neurons provide a set of dynamical systems that can be linearly combined to match the target...
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Simbad: An Autonomous Robot Simulation Package for Education and Research
Simbad is an open source Java 3d robot simulator for scientific and educational purposes. It is mainly dedicated to researchers and programmers who want a simple basis for studying Situated Artificial Intellig...
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Blindbuilder: A New Encoding to Evolve Lego-Like Structures
This paper introduces a new representation for assemblies of small Lego®-like elements: structures are indirectly encoded as construction plans. This representation shows some interesting properties such as hiera...