15th Annual “Humies” Awards — 2018 — Kyoto, Japan

Outcome Authors Paper(s) Statement Presentation Media Algorithm Type
Fan Xue Weisheng Lu Ke Chen Automatic generation of semantically rich as-built building information models using 2D images: A derivative-free optimization approach (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab)
Finalist Shin Hwei Tan Zhen Dong Xiang Gao Abhik Roychoudhury Repairing Crashes in Android Apps (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab)
BRONZE - $1,000 Emma Hart Kevin Sim Barry Gardiner Kana Kamimura A Hybrid Method for Feature Construction and Selection to Improve Wind-Damage Prediction in the Forestry Sector (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab)
Luca Parisi Narrendar RaviChandran Marianne Lyne Manaog Genetic Algorithms and Unsupervised Machine Learning for Predicting Robotic Manipulation Failures for Force-Sensitive Tasks (opens in new tab) Decision support system to improve postoperative discharge: A novel multi-class classification approach (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab)
Finalist Filipe Assunção Nuno Lourenço Penousal Machado Bernardete Ribeiro Evolving the Topology of Large Scale Deep Neural Networks (opens in new tab) DENSER: Deep Evolutionary Network Structured Representation assuncao- (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab)
Finalist Eric Medvet Alberto Bartoli On the Automatic Design of a Representation for Grammar-Based Genetic Programming. European Conference on Genetic Programming (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab)
Finalist Dilini Samarasinghe Erandi Lakshika Michael Barlow Kathryn Kasmarik Automatic Synthesis of Swarm Behavioural Rules from their Atomic Components (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab)
Finalist Victor Parque Tomoyuki Miyashita Towards Bundling Minimal Trees in Polygonal Maps (opens in new tab) Path Planning On Hierarchical Bundles With Differential Evolution (opens in new tab) Bundling n-Stars in Polygonal Maps (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab)
SILVER - $3,000 Stephen Kelly Malcolm I. Heywood Emergent Solutions to High-Dimensional Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab)
GOLD - $5,000 Michael A. Lones Jane E. Alty Jeremy Cosgrove Philippa Duggan-Carter Stuart Jamieson Rebecca F. Naylor Andrew J. Turner Stephen L. Smith A New Evolutionary Algorithm-Based Home Monitoring Device for Parkinson’s Dyskinesia (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab)
Muneeb Hassan Nasser R. Sabar Andy Song Optimizing Deep Learning by Hyper Heuristic Approach for Classifying Good Quality Images (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab)
Aditya Rawal Risto Miikkulainen From Nodes to Networks: Evolving Recurrent Neural Networks (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab)
Victor Parque Tomoyuki Miyashita On Vehicle Surrogate Learning with Genetic Programming Ensembles (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab)
Tanmay Gangwani Jian Peng Policy Optimization by Genetic Distillation (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab)
BRONZE - $1,000 Milan Ceska Jiri Matyas Vojtech Mrazek Lukas Sekanina Zdenek Vasicek Tomas Vojnar Approximating Complex Arithmetic Circuits with Formal Error Guarantees: 32-bit Multipliers Accomplished (opens in new tab) Entry Form (opens in new tab) Slides (opens in new tab)
Outcome
Finalist
Authors
Shin Hwei Tan Zhen Dong Xiang Gao Abhik Roychoudhury
Outcome
Finalist
Authors
Dilini Samarasinghe Erandi Lakshika Michael Barlow Kathryn Kasmarik
Outcome
GOLD - $5,000
Authors
Michael A. Lones Jane E. Alty Jeremy Cosgrove Philippa Duggan-Carter Stuart Jamieson Rebecca F. Naylor Andrew J. Turner Stephen L. Smith
Outcome
BRONZE - $1,000
Authors
Milan Ceska Jiri Matyas Vojtech Mrazek Lukas Sekanina Zdenek Vasicek Tomas Vojnar