List of Awards

OVERALL AWARD

CEC2015 Best Overall Paper Award:15390
Harith Al-Sahaf, Mengjie Zhang, Mark Johnston and Brijesh Verma,
“Image Descriptor: A Genetic Programming Approach to Multiclass Texture Classification”

CEC2015 Runner up Paper #1:15679
Richard Veale, Tadashi Isa and Masatoshi Yoshida,
“Applying Differential Evolution MCMC to Parameterize Large-scale Spiking Neural Simulations”

CEC2015 Runner up Paper #2:15163
JunQi Zhang, LinWei Xu, Ji Ma and MengChu Zhou,
“A Learning Automata-based Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Noisy Environment”

STUDENT AWARD

Best Student Paper #1:15309
Sasaki Taku, Ono Isao
“Particle Filter with Extrapolation by Crossover for Nonlinear State Estimation”

Runner up Paper:15514
Momodou Sanyang and Ata Kaban
“Heavy tails with Parameter Adaptation in Random Projection based continuous EDA”

CIS AWARD

IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper Award for 2012
Minh Nghia Le ; Yew Soon Ong ; Yaochu Jin ; Sendhoff, B.,
“A Unified Framework for Symbiosis of Evolutionary Mechanisms with Application to Water Clusters Potential Model Design,”
Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE Volume: 7 , Issue: 1
DOI: 10.1109/MCI.2011.2176995
Publication Year: 2012 , Page(s): 20 – 35

Outstanding Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Paper Award for 2012
Schutze, O. ; Esquivel, X. ; Lara, A. ; Coello Coello, Carlos A.,
“Using the Averaged Hausdorff Distance as a Performance Measure in Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization,”
Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on
Volume: 16 , Issue: 4
DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2011.2161872
Publication Year: 2012 , Page(s): 504 – 522

IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award for 2012
Waegeman, W. ; Pahikkala, T. ; Airola, A. ; Salakoski, T. ; Stock, M. ; De Baets, B.,
“A Kernel-Based Framework for Learning Graded Relations From Data,”
Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on
Volume: 20 , Issue: 6
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2012.2194151
Publication Year: 2012 , Page(s): 1090 – 1101

2014 Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award
Yong Wang,
“Evolutionary Algorithm for Complex Continuous Optimization Problems”