• EvoGames 2012 2nd Call for Papers EvoGames is part of evo* 2012
• DETA @ GECCO 2012: Call for Papers Digital Entertainment and Arts track
• Our bot "Mr. Racer" dominates the 2011 car racing competition.
• Results of the 10-bot StarCraft AI competition tournament at CIG 2011 now online.

Also see our CI in Games page.

PG 554: Mobile Musik-Welten – Spielerische Exploration von digitalen Musiksammlungen. Sose 2011 - WiSe 2011/12 Advisors: Vatolkin, Preuß

(currently updating, not quite complete)

• Gabriela Ochoa, Mike Preuss, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Marc Schoenauer. Guest Editors of Special Issue: Automated Design and Assessment of Heuristic Search Methods. In Evolutionary Computation Journal (ECJ). Volume 20, issue 2. MIT Press, 2012

• Cecilia Di Chio, Alexandros Agapitos, Stefano Cagnoni, Carlos Cotta, Francisco Fernández de Vega, Gianni A. Di Caro, Rolf Drechsler, Anikó Ekárt, Anna Isabel Esparcia-Alcázar, Muddassar Farooq, William B. Langdon, Juan J. Merelo Guervós, Mike Preuss, Hendrik Richter, Sara Silva, Anabela Simões, Giovanni Squillero, Ernesto Tarantino, Andrea Tettamanzi, Julian Togelius, Neil Urquhart, Sima Uyar, Georgios N. Yannakakis. Applications of Evolutionary Computation - EvoApplications 2012: EvoCOMNET, EvoCOMPLEX, EvoFIN, EvoGAMES, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoNUM, EvoPAR, EvoRISK, EvoSTIM, and EvoSTOC, Málaga, Spain, April 11-13, 2012, Proceedings. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 7248. Springer, 2012.

• Cecilia Di Chio, Stefano Cagnoni, Carlos Cotta, Marc Ebner, Anikó Ekárt, Anna Esparcia-Alcázar, Juan Julián Merelo Guervós, Ferrante Neri, Mike Preuss, Hendrik Richter, Julian Togelius, Georgios N. Yannakakis. Applications of Evolutionary Computation - EvoApplications 2011: EvoCOMPLEX, EvoGAMES, EvoIASP, EvoINTELLIGENCE, EvoNUM, and EvoSTOC, Torino, Italy, April 27-29, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 6624. Springer, 2011.

• Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Marco Chiarandini, Luís Paquete, Mike Preuss. Experimental Methods for the Analysis of Optimization Algorithms. Springer, 2010.

• Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Marco Chiarandini, Luís Paquete, Mike Preuss. Proceedings of the Workshop on Experimental Methods for the Assessment of Computational Systems, Krakow, Poland. Algorithm Engineering Reports, TR10-2-007, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany, 2010.

• Cecilia Di Chio, Stefano Cagnoni, Carlos Cotta, Marc Ebner, Anikó Ekárt, Anna Esparcia-Alcázar, Chi Keong Goh, Juan J. Merelo Guervós, Ferrante Neri, Mike Preuss, Julian Togelius, Georgios N. Yannakakis. Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplicatons 2010: EvoCOMPLEX, EvoGAMES, EvoIASP, EvoINTELLIGENCE, EvoNUM, and EvoSTOC, Istanbul, Turkey, April 7-9, 2010, Proceedings, Part I. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 6024. Springer, 2010.

• Mario Giacobini, Anthony Brabazon, Stefano Cagnoni, Gianni A. Di Caro, Anikó Ekárt, Anna Esparcia-Alcázar, Muddassar Farooq, Andreas Fink, Penousal Machado, Jon McCormack, Michael O'Neill, Ferrante Neri, Mike Preuss, Franz Rothlauf, Ernesto Tarantino, Shengxiang Yang: Applications of Evolutionary Computing, EvoWorkshops 2009: EvoCOMNET, EvoENVIRONMENT, EvoFIN, EvoGAMES, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoINTERACTION, EvoMUSART, EvoNUM, EvoSTOC, EvoTRANSLOG, Tübingen, Germany, April 15-17, Proceedings. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 5484. Springer, 2009.

• Markus Kemmerling, Niels Ackermann, Mike Preuss: Individualizing Planning Diplomacy Bots. In Believable Bots, Springer, 2012. (in print)

• Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Mike Preuss. The Future of Experimental Research. In Experimental Methods for the Analysis of Optimization Algorithms, pages 17-49. Springer, 2010.

• Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Christian Lasarczyk, Mike Preuss. The Sequential Parameter Optimization Toolbox. In Experimental Methods for the Analysis of Optimization Algorithms, pages 337-362. Springer, 2010.

• Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Mike Preuss, Karl-Heinz Schmitt, Hans-Paul Schwefel Model Optimization with Evolutionary Algorithms. In Klaus Lucas and Peter Roosen, editors, Emergence, Analysis and Evolution of Structures—Concepts and Strategies Across Disciplines, Series Understanding Complex Systems, pages 47-62. Springer, 2010.

• Ruxandra Stoean, Mike Preuss, Catalin Stoean, Elia El-Darzi, and D. Dumitrescu. An evolutionary approximation for the coefficients of decision functions within a support vector machine learning strategy. In A. E. Hassanien and A. Abraham, editors, Foundations of Computational Intelligence Volume 1, volume 201/2009 of Studies in Computational Intelligence, pages 315-347. Springer, 2009.

• Mike Preuss, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein. Sequential Parameter Optimization Applied to Self-Adaptation for Binary-Coded Evolutionary Algorithms. In Parameter Setting in Evolutionary Algorithms, Studies in Computational Intelligence, volume 54/2007. pp. 91-119. Springer, 2007.

• Olaf Mersmann, Mike Preuss, Heike Trautmann, Bernd Bischl, Claus Weihs. Analyzing the BBOB Results by Means of Benchmarking Concepts. In Evolutionary Computation Journal, 2012. (forthcoming)

• Mike Preuss, Nicola Beume, Holger Danielsiek, Tobias Hein, Boris Naujoks, Nico Piatkowski, Raphael Stüer, Andreas Thom, Simon Wessing. Towards Intelligent Team Composition and Maneuvering in Realtime Strategy Games. In IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 82-96. 2010.

• Daniele Loiacono, Pier Luca Lanzi, Julian Togelius, Enrique Onieva, David A. Pelta, Martin V. Butz, Thies D. Lönneker, Luigi Cardamone, Diego Perez, Yago Saez, Mike Preuss, Jan Quadflieg. The 2009 Simulated Car Racing Championship. In IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 131-147. 2010.

• Catalin Stoean, Mike Preuss, Ruxandra Stoean, Dumitru Dumitrescu. Multimodal Optimization by Means of a Topological Species Conservation Algorithm. In IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Volume 14, Issue 6, pp. 842-864. 2010

• Heike Trautmann, Tobias Wagner, Boris Naujoks, Mike Preuß, Jörn Mehnen. Statistical Methods for Convergence Detection of Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms. In Evolutionary Computation, Volume 17, Issue 4, pp. 493-509, 2009.

• Ruxandra Stoean, Mike Preuss, Catalin Stoean, Elia E-Darzi, Dumitru Dumitrescu. Support vector machine learning with an evolutionary engine. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 60(8):1116-1122, 2009.

• Frank Henrich, Claude Bouvy, Christoph Kausch, Klaus Lucas, Mike Preuß, Günter Rudolph, Peter Roosen. Economic optimization of non-sharp separation sequences by means of evolutionary algorithms. In Computers & Chemical Engineering 32(7): 1411-1432. Elsevier, 2008.

• Mike Preuss, Tobias Wagner, David Ginsbourger. On the Use of Kriging for Modeling High-Dimensional Noisy Observations of Computer Games. In Proceedings of the LION6 conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (to appear). 2012.

• Mike Preuss, Paolo Burelli, Georgios N. Yannakakis. Diversified Virtual Camera Composition. In EvoApplications 2012, pp. 265-274. 2012

• Mike Preuss. Improved Topological Niching for Real-Valued Global Optimization. In EvoApplications 2012, pp. 386-395. 2012

• Mike Preuss, Jan Quadflieg, Günter Rudolph. TORCS Sensor Noise Removal and Multi-objective Track Selection for Driving Style Adaptation. In: Proceedings of the IEEE 2011 Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, pp. 337-344. 2011.

• Philip Hingston, Mike Preuss. Red teaming with coevolution. In: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 1155-1163, 2011.

• Simon Wessing, Mike Preuss, Günter Rudolph. When Parameter Tuning Actually is Parameter Control. In GECCO '11: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, pp. 821–828, 2011.

• Igor Vatolkin, Mike Preuss, Günter Rudolph. Multi-objective feature selection in music genre and style recognition tasks. In GECCO '11: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, pp. 411–418, 2011.

• Mike Preuss, Catalin Stoean, Ruxandra Stoean. Niching foundations: basin identification on fixed-property generated landscapes. In GECCO '11: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, pp. 837–844, 2011.

• Olaf Mersmann, Bernd Bischl, Heike Trautmann, Mike Preuss, Claus Weihs, Günter Rudolph. Exploratory Landscape Analysis. In GECCO '11: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, pp. 829-836, 2011.

• Jan Quadflieg, Mike Preuss, Günter Rudolph. Driving Faster Than a Human Player. In EvoApplications (1), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6624/2011, pp. 143-152, 2011.

• Markus Kemmerling, Niels Ackermann und Mike Preuss. Nested Look-Ahead Evolutionary Algorithm Based Planning for a Believable Diplomacy Bot. In EvoApplications (1), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6624/2011, pp. 83-92, 2011.

• Julian Togelius, Mike Preuss, Nicola Beume, Simon Wessing, Johan Hagelbäck, and Georgios N. Yannakakis. Multiobjective Exploration of the StarCraft Map Space. IEEE Conference On Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG), IEEE press, 2010.

• Markus Kemmerling and Mike Preuss. Automatic Adaptation to Generated Content Via Car Setup Optimization in TORCS. IEEE Conference On Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG), IEEE press, 2010.

• Jan Quadflieg, Mike Preuss, Oliver Kramer and Günter Rudolph. Learning the Track and Planning Ahead in a Car Racing Controller. IEEE Conference On Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG), IEEE press, 2010.

• Philip Hingston, Mike Preuss, and Daniel Spierling. RedTNet: A Network Model for Strategy Games. Proc. of the 2010 IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), part of 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2010), IEEE Press, 2010.

• Mike Preuss, Günter Rudolph, Simon Wessing. Tuning Optimization Algorithms for Real-World Problems by Means of Surrogate Modeling. In GECCO '10: Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, pp. 401–408, 2010.

• Julian Togelius, Mike Preuss, Georgios N. Yannakakis. Towards multiobjective procedural map generation, Proceedings of the ACM Foundations of Digital Games, ACM Press, 2010.

• Bernd Bischl, Igor Vatolkin, Mike Preuss. Selecting Small Audio Feature Sets in Music Classification by Means of Asymmetric Mutation. In Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XI, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6238/2011, pp. 314-323, Springer, 2011

• Olaf Mersmann, Mike Preuss, Heike Trautmann. Benchmarking Evolutionary Algorithms: Towards Exploratory Landscape Analysis. In Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XI, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6238/2011, pp. 73-82, Springer, 2011

• Markus Kemmerling, Niels Ackermann, Nicola Beume, Mike Preuss, Sebastian Uellenbeck, Wolfgang Walz. Is Human-like and Well Playing Contradictory for Diplomacy Bots?, Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2009), p. 209-216, IEEE Press, 2009.

• Nicola Beume, Boris Naujoks, Mike Preuss, Günter Rudolph, and Tobias Wagner. Effects of 1-Greedy S-Metric-Selection on Innumerably Large Pareto Fronts, Proc. Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, 5rd Int'l Conf. (EMO 2009), LNCS 5467, p. 21-35, Springer, 2009.

• Ofer M. Shir, Mike Preuss, Boris Naujoks, and Michael T. M. Emmerich. Enhancing decision space diversity in evolutionary multiobjective algorithms. In M. Ehrgott, C. M. Fonseca, X. Gandibleux, J.-K. Hao, and M. Sevaux, editors, Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, 5th International Conference, EMO 2009, Nantes, France, April 7-10, 2009. Proceedings, volume 5467 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 95-109. Springer, 2009.

• Mike Preuss. Adaptability of algorithms for real-valued optimization. In M. Giacobini et al., editors, Applications of Evolutionary Computing, EvoWorkshops 2009. Proceedings, volume 5484 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 665-674, Springer, 2009. (Evonum'09 best paper award).

• Günter Rudolph and Mike Preuss. A multiobjective approach for finding equivalent inverse images of pareto-optimal objective vectors. In C. Coello Coello, P. Bonissone, and Y. Jin, editors, 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision-Making (IEEE MCDM 2009), pages 74-79, IEEE Press, 2009.

• Heike Trautmann, Boris Naujoks, Mike Preuss. Multi-Objective Quality Assessment for EA Parameter Tuning. In Classification as a Tool for Research, Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization, Part 3, Proceedings of the 11th IFCS Biennial Conference and 33rd Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V., 2009, pp. 793-800, Springer, 2010

• Holger Danielsiek, Raphael Stüer, Andreas Thom, Nicola Beume, Boris Naujoks, Mike Preuss. Intelligent Moving of Groups in Real-Time Strategy Games. Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2008), p. 71-78. IEEE Press, 2008.

• Nicola Beume, Tobias Hein, Boris Naujoks, Nico Piatkowski, Mike Preuss, Simon Wessing. Intelligent Anti-Grouping in Real-Time Strategy Games. Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2008), p. 63-70. IEEE Press, 2008.

• Nicola Beume, Tobias Hein, Boris Naujoks, Georg Neugebauer, Nico Piatkowski, Mike Preuss, Raphael Stüer, Andreas Thom. To Model or Not to Model: Controlling Pac-Man Ghosts Without Incorporating Global Knowledge. Proc. of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008), pp. 3463-3470. IEEE Press, 2008.

• Nicola Beume, Holger Danielsiek, Christian Eichhorn, Boris Naujoks, Mike Preuss, Klaus Stiller, Simon Wessing. Measuring Flow as Concept for Detecting Game Fun in the Pac-Man Game. Proc. of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008), pp. 3447-3454. IEEE Press, 2008.

• Jens Jägersküpper, Mike Preuss. Aiming for a theoretically tractable CSA variant by means of empirical investigations. In Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, GECCO '08, pp. 503-510. ACM, 2008.

• Catalin Stoean, Mike Preuss, Ruxandra Stoean, Dumitru Dumitrescu. EA-Powered Basin Number Estimation by Means of Preservation and Exploration. In Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN X Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 5199/2008, pp. 569-578. Springer, 2008.

• Heike Trautmann, Uwe Ligges, Jörn Mehnen, Mike Preuss. A Convergence Criterion for Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms Based on Systematic Statistical Testing. In Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN X Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 5199/2008, pp. 825-836. Springer, 2008.

• Jens Jägersküpper, Mike Preuss. Empirical Investigation of Simplified Step-Size Control in Metaheuristics with a View to Theory. In Experimental Algorithms, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 5038/2008, 263-274. Springer, 2008.

• Catalin Stoean, Mike Preuss, Ruxandra Stoean, Dumitru Dumitrescu. Disburdening the species conservation evolutionary algorithm of arguing with radii. In Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, GECCO '07, pp. 1420-1427. ACM, 2007.

• Markus Chimani, Maria Kandyba, Mike Preuss. Hybrid Numerical Optimization for Combinatorial Network Problems. In Hybrid Metaheuristics 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4771/2007, pp. 185-200. Springer, 2007

• Ruxandra Stoean, Mike Preuss, Catalin Stoean, Dumitru Dumitrescu. Concerning the potential of evolutionary support vector machines. In IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2007, pp. 1436-1443. IEEE Press, 2007.

• Mike Preuss, Günter Rudolph, Feelly Tumakaka. Solving multimodal problems via multiobjective techniques with Application to phase equilibrium detection. In IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2007, pp. 2703-2710. IEEE Press, 2007.

coming soon, really… 8-)