14th Annual "Humies" Awards — 2017 — Berlin, Germany

Outcome Authors Paper(s) Statement Presentation Media Algorithm Type
Kıvanç Tatar Matthieu Macret Philippe Pasquier Automatic Synthesizer Preset Generation with PresetGen (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab)
Gold - $5,000 Robin Harper Robert J. Chapman Christopher Ferrie Christopher Granade Richard Kueng Steven T. Flammia Alberto Peruzzo Explaining quantum correlations through evolution of causal models (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab)
Doina Bucur Giovanni Iacca Andrea Marcelli Giovanni Squillero Giovanni Squillero Alberto Tonda Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms for Influence Maximization in Social Networks (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab)
Silver – $3,000 Shin Yoo Xiaoyuan Xie Fei-ching Kuo Tsong Yueh Chen Mark Harman Human Competitiveness of Genetic Programming in Spectrum Based Fault Localisation: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab)
Anastassios Petropoulos Daniel Grebow Drew Jones Gregory Lantoine Et Al GTOC9: Methods and Results from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Team (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab)
Hossein Moeinzadeh Gaetano D. Gargiulo Paolo Bifulco Mario Cesarelli Et Al Computing a New Central Terminal for ECG recording using combined Genetic Algorithm and linear regression from real patient data (opens in new tab) On the “Zero of Potential of the Electric Field Produced by the Heart Beat”. A Machine Capable of Estimating this Underlying Persistent Error in Electrocardiography (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab)
Vincent R. Ragusa H. David Mathias Vera A. Kazakova Annie S. Wu Enhanced Genetic Path Planning for Autonomous Flight (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab)
Bronze - $1,000 Michael Fenton Ciaran McNally Jonathan Byrne Erik Hemberg James McDermott Michael O’Neill Discrete Planar Truss Optimization by Node Position Variation Using Grammatical Evolution (opens in new tab) Automatic innovative truss design using grammatical evolution (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab)
Saemundur O. Haraldsson John R. Woodward Alexander I.E. Brownle The Use of Automatic Test Data Generation for Genetic Improvement in a Live System (opens in new tab) Fixing Bugs in Your Sleep: How Genetic Improvement Became an Overnight Success (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab)
Bronze - $1,000 Risto Miikkulainen Neil Iscoe Aaron Shagrin Ron Cordell Sam Nazari Cory Schoolland Et Al Conversion Rate Optimization through Evolutionary Computation (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab)
Stjepan Picek Luca Mariot Alberto Leporati Domagoj Jakobovic Evolving S-boxes Based on Cellular Automata with Genetic Programming (opens in new tab) Design of S-boxes Defined with Cellular Automata Rules (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab)
L.-Y. Chen Y.-L. Yang T.-C. Hsiao ZCSR for Targeting the Optimal Impedance in Digital Radio Frequency Matching Box (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab)
Risto Miikkulainen Jason Liang Elliot Meyerson Dan Fink Olivier Francon Evolving Deep Neural Networks (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab)
Outcome
Gold - $5,000
Authors
Robin Harper Robert J. Chapman Christopher Ferrie Christopher Granade Richard Kueng Steven T. Flammia Alberto Peruzzo
Authors
Doina Bucur Giovanni Iacca Andrea Marcelli Giovanni Squillero Giovanni Squillero Alberto Tonda
Authors
Anastassios Petropoulos Daniel Grebow Drew Jones Gregory Lantoine Et Al
Authors
Vincent R. Ragusa H. David Mathias Vera A. Kazakova Annie S. Wu
Outcome
Bronze - $1,000
Authors
Risto Miikkulainen Neil Iscoe Aaron Shagrin Ron Cordell Sam Nazari Cory Schoolland Et Al
Authors
Risto Miikkulainen Jason Liang Elliot Meyerson Dan Fink Olivier Francon