6th Annual "Humies" Awards — 2009 — Montreal

Outcome Authors Paper(s) Statement Presentation Media Algorithm Type
Gold—$5000 Stephanie Forrest Claire Le Goues ThanhVu Nguyen Westley Weimer Automatically finding patches using genetic programming A Genetic Programming Approach to Automated Software Repair Entry Form Slides GP
Silver—$3000 Muhammad Shahzad Saira Zahid Muddassar Farooq Syed Ali Khayam A Hybrid GA-PSO Fuzzy System for User Identification on Smart Phones Keystroke-based User Identification on Smart Phones Entry Form Slides Slides Slides GA-PSO
Bronze—$1000 Ami Hauptpman Achiya Elyasaf Moshe Sipper Assaf Karmon GP-Rush: Using Genetic Programming to Evolve Solvers for the Rush Hour Puzzle Entry Form Slides GP
Bronze—$1000 Cynthia B. Perez Gustavo Olague Learning Invariant Region Descriptor Operators with Genetic Programming and the F-measure Evolutionary Learning of Local Descriptor Operators for Object Recognition Entry Form Slides GP
Amy K. Hoover Michael P. Rosario Kenneth O. Stanley Entry Form Slides GA
Magda B. Fayek Ihab A. Talkhan Khalil S. El-Masry GAMA (Genetic Algorithm driven Multi-Agents) for E-Commerce Integrative Negotiation Entry Form GA
Sadia Noreen Shafaq Murtaza M. Zubair Shafiq Muddassar Farooq Evolvable Malware Entry Form Slides GA
Ilan Kadar Ohad Ben-Shahar Moshe Sipper Evolving Boundary Detectors for Natural Images via Genetic Programming Evolution of a Local Boundary Detector for Natural Images via Genetic Programming and Texture Cues Entry Form GP
Markus Borschbach Christian Grelle Empirical Benchmarks of a Genetic Algorithm Incorporating Human Strategies Entry Form Slides GA
Outcome
Gold—$5000
Authors
Stephanie Forrest Claire Le Goues ThanhVu Nguyen Westley Weimer
Algorithm Type
GP
Paper(s)
Automatically finding patches using genetic programming A Genetic Programming Approach to Automated Software Repair
Statement
Entry Form
Presentation
Slides
Outcome
Silver—$3000
Authors
Muhammad Shahzad Saira Zahid Muddassar Farooq Syed Ali Khayam
Algorithm Type
GA-PSO
Paper(s)
A Hybrid GA-PSO Fuzzy System for User Identification on Smart Phones Keystroke-based User Identification on Smart Phones
Statement
Entry Form
Presentation
Slides Slides Slides
Outcome
Bronze—$1000
Authors
Ami Hauptpman Achiya Elyasaf Moshe Sipper Assaf Karmon
Algorithm Type
GP
Paper(s)
GP-Rush: Using Genetic Programming to Evolve Solvers for the Rush Hour Puzzle
Statement
Entry Form
Presentation
Slides
Outcome
Bronze—$1000
Authors
Cynthia B. Perez Gustavo Olague
Algorithm Type
GP
Paper(s)
Learning Invariant Region Descriptor Operators with Genetic Programming and the F-measure Evolutionary Learning of Local Descriptor Operators for Object Recognition
Statement
Entry Form
Presentation
Slides
Authors
Amy K. Hoover Michael P. Rosario Kenneth O. Stanley
Algorithm Type
GA
Statement
Entry Form
Presentation
Slides
Authors
Magda B. Fayek Ihab A. Talkhan Khalil S. El-Masry
Algorithm Type
GA
Paper(s)
GAMA (Genetic Algorithm driven Multi-Agents) for E-Commerce Integrative Negotiation
Statement
Entry Form
Authors
Sadia Noreen Shafaq Murtaza M. Zubair Shafiq Muddassar Farooq
Algorithm Type
GA
Paper(s)
Evolvable Malware
Statement
Entry Form
Presentation
Slides
Authors
Ilan Kadar Ohad Ben-Shahar Moshe Sipper
Algorithm Type
GP
Paper(s)
Evolving Boundary Detectors for Natural Images via Genetic Programming Evolution of a Local Boundary Detector for Natural Images via Genetic Programming and Texture Cues
Statement
Entry Form
Authors
Markus Borschbach Christian Grelle
Algorithm Type
GA
Paper(s)
Empirical Benchmarks of a Genetic Algorithm Incorporating Human Strategies
Statement
Entry Form
Presentation
Slides