Parameter sweeps for exploring GP parameters

摘要

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 emphasizing the field of evolutionary computation. Paper reviewing has been done by double blind assignment. Onaverage 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"):.