GECCO'05: Proc. 7th Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conf.
Washington, DC, ACM Press, (2005)Abstract
The papers in this two volume proceedings are presented at the 7th
Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference (GECCO-2005),
held in Washington, D.C., June 25-29, 2005.This year is an exceptional
one for the GECCO conference series. First, the International Society
for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC) which has always
been GECCO's sponsor has changed to become a Special Interest Group
of the ACM named SIGEVO. Being part of ACM reflects the evolution
and integration of our very successful discipline into the main stream
of computer science. As a consequence, the GECCO-2005 proceedings
are an ACM publication and they are incorporated into the ACM Digital
Library. This guarantees an even broader dissemination of Darwinian
and other nature-inspired computation methods.Second, we had 549
regular paper submissions representing the absolute record of all
conferences emphasising the field of evolutionary computation. Paper
reviewing has been done by double blind assignment. On average each
paper was evaluated by five independent reviewers. Finally, 253 paper
(46.1%) have been accepted as full (max. 8 pages) papers. Additionally,
120 submissions were accepted as posters.A goal of GECCO is to encourage
new areas and paradigms of evolutionary computation to gather momentum
and flourish. This is accomplished by the establishment of new independent
tracks each year. This year, as a result of a recombinative and creative
process, GECCO-2005 comprises 16 tracks consisting of core tracks
("C"), tracks previously in GECCOs ("P"), not yet belonging
to the core track family), "recombined" tracks from GECCO 2004
("R"), and newly created tracks ("N"):.