GEM'09: July 15, 2009 Schedule

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6:45am - 5:00pm:  REGISTRATION (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


08:00a - 12:20p:  During this period, GEM'09 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to ICAI'09, DMIN'09, IKE'09, FECS'09, or
                  IPCV'09.  These sessions discuss topics that significantly overlap
                  the scope of GEM'09.


SESSION 3-GEM:    SWARM + ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION + BIO-INSPIRED SYSTEMS
                  Co-Chairs: Dr. Michael Scherger* and Pranab Banerjee**
                  *Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
                  **Space Dynamics Laboratory, North Logan, Utah, USA
                  July 15, 2009 (Wednesday); 12:20pm - 01:40pm
                  (LOCATION: Gold Room)

12:20 - 12:40pm:  Animat Swarms and Spatial Emergence Phenomena
                  K. A. Hawick and C. J. Scogings
                  Massey University, New Zealand

12:40 - 01:00pm:  A Comparison of Biology-Based Metaheuristics for Finding
                  Piecewise Linear Approximations of Digitized Soundcurves
                  Christopher Neal and Jonathan Mohr
                  University of Alberta, Canada

01:00 - 01:20pm:  Novel Mutative Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for
                  Discrete Optimization
                  I. M. Yassin, N. M. Tahir, M. K. Mohd Salleh, H. A. Hassan
                  A. Zabidi and H. Z. Abidin
                  Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia

01:20 - 01:40pm:  A Brief Survey of Nature-Inspired Search Algorithms
                  A. Palani, W. D. Potter, and E. Drucker
                  University of Georgia, USA


SESSION 4-GEM:    GENETIC + EVOLUTIONAY + IMMUNE BASED ALG. + MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION
                  Co-Chairs: Prof. Pericles A. Mitkas* and Ananta Palani**
                  *Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
                  **University of Georgia, USA
                  July 15, 2009 (Wednesday); 01:40pm - 04:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Gold Room)

01:40 - 02:00pm:  EVADING: An Evolutionary Algorithm with Dynamic Niching
                  for Data Classification
                  John E. Psaroudakis, Fani A. Tzima, Pericles A. Mitkas
                  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Hawk-Dove Tournament: A New Selection Technique for
                  Genetic Algorithms Based on Evolutionary Game Theory
                  F. Brito, O. Teixeira, A. Teixeira, R. Limao Oliveira
                  UFPA & CESUPA

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Initiation of Evolutionary Algorithms
                  Adrian O'Connor, Junbin Gao, John Louis
                  Sharjah Men's College, UAE & Charles Sturt U., NSW, Australia

02:40 - 03:00pm:  A New Hybrid Multiobjective Algorithm for Assembly Lines Design
                  Hicham Chehade, Lionel Amodeo, Farouk Yalaoui
                  University of Technology of Troyes, France

03:00 - 03:20pm:  BREAK

03:20 - 03:40pm:  New Crossover Operator for the Single Machine Scheduling
                  Problem with Sequence-Dependent Setup Times
                  Aymen Sioud, Marc Gravel and Caroline Gagne
                  Mathematique University du Quebec A Chicoutmi, Canada

03:40 - 04:00pm:  A Modified Cultural Algorithm based on Genetic Algorithm
                  for Solving Global Optimization Problems
                  Deam James Azevedo da Silva  and Roberto Celio Limao de Oliveira
                  Federal University of Para (UFPa), Brazil

04:00 - 04:20pm:  The Effects of Selection Strategies on Fuzzy-Genetic
                  Algorithm Based Power Flow Control
                  G. Ozdemir Dag, M. Bagriyanik
                  Informatics Institute of Istanbul Tech. University, Turkey 


SESSION 5-GEM:    NOVEL APPLICATIONS + NEW METHODOLOGIES AND RELATED ISSUES
                  Co-Chairs: Dr. Bryan Hertweck* and Mohamad Adnan Al-Alaoui**
                  *High Point University, USA
                  **American University of Beirut, Lebanon
                  July 15, 2009 (Wednesday); 04:20pm - 06:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Gold Room)

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Reactive Power Market Clearing Using Genetic Algorithm
                  Heidarali Shayanfar, Abdorreza Rabiee, and Nima Amjady
                  Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Fast Blackbox Optimization: Iterated Local Search and the
                  Strategy of Powell
                  Oliver Kramer
                  Technische Universitat Dortmund, Germany

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Stock Price Coding and Zipf's Law
                  Tomoyasu Oya, Yoichi Muraoka
                  Waseda University, Japan

05:20 - 05:40pm:  Simulation and Discretization of Fractional Order Systems
                  Mohamad Adnan Al-Alaoui
                  American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

05:40 - 06:00pm:  FREE SLOT

06:00 - 06:20pm:  FREE SLOT


06:00 - 09:00pm:  KEYNOTE & INVITED PRESENTATIONS + TUTORIALS
                  (Please see the lists at the begining of this booklet)

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