| 2009 | 
| 88 | EE | Johannes W. Kruisselbrink,
Michael T. M. Emmerich,
Thomas Bäck,
Andreas Bender,
Adriaan P. IJzerman,
Eelke van der Horst:
Combining Aggregation with Pareto Optimization: A Case Study in Evolutionary Molecular Design.
EMO 2009: 453-467 | 
| 2008 | 
| 87 | EE | Jeroen Eggermont,
Rui Li,
Ernst G. P. Bovenkamp,
Henk A. Marquering,
Michael T. M. Emmerich,
Aad van der Lugt,
Thomas Bäck,
Jouke Dijkstra,
Johan H. C. Reiber:
Optimizing Computed Tomographic Angiography Image Segmentation Using Fitness Based Partitioning.
EvoWorkshops 2008: 275-284 | 
| 86 | EE | Ron Breukelaar,
Thomas Bäck:
Self-adaptive mutation rates in genetic algorithm for inverse design of cellular automata.
GECCO 2008: 1101-1102 | 
| 85 | EE | Johannes W. Kruisselbrink,
Thomas Bäck,
Adriaan P. IJzerman,
Eelke van der Horst:
Evolutionary algorithms for automated drug design towards target molecule properties.
GECCO 2008: 1555-1562 | 
| 84 | EE | Ofer M. Shir,
Jonathan Roslund,
Thomas Bäck,
Herschel Rabitz:
Performance analysis of derandomized evolution strategies in quantum control experiments.
GECCO 2008: 519-526 | 
| 83 | EE | Thomas Bäck:
Evolution strategies: basic introduction.
GECCO (Companion) 2008: 2259-2276 | 
| 82 | EE | Ofer M. Shir,
Thomas Bäck,
Herschel Rabitz,
Marc J. J. Vrakking:
On the evolution of laser pulses under a dynamic Quantum Control environment.
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2008: 2127-2134 | 
| 81 | EE | Rui Li,
Michael T. M. Emmerich,
Jeroen Eggermont,
Ernst G. P. Bovenkamp,
Thomas Bäck,
Jouke Dijkstra,
Johan H. C. Reiber:
Metamodel-assisted mixed integer evolution strategies and their application to intravascular ultrasound image analysis.
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2008: 2764-2771 | 
| 80 | EE | Vincent van der Goes,
Ofer M. Shir,
Thomas Bäck:
Niche Radius Adaptation with Asymmetric Sharing.
PPSN 2008: 195-204 | 
| 79 | EE | Rui Li,
Jeroen Eggermont,
Ofer M. Shir,
Michael T. M. Emmerich,
Thomas Bäck,
Jouke Dijkstra,
Johan H. C. Reiber:
Mixed-Integer Evolution Strategies with Dynamic Niching.
PPSN 2008: 246-255 | 
| 2007 | 
| 78 | EE | Riccardo Fanciulli,
Lars Willmes,
Janne Savolainen,
Peter van der Walle,
Thomas Bäck,
Jennifer L. Herek:
Evolution Strategies for Laser Pulse Compression.
Artificial Evolution 2007: 219-230 | 
| 77 | EE | Ofer M. Shir,
Vered Raz,
Roeland W. Dirks,
Thomas Bäck:
Classification of Cell Fates with Support Vector Machine Learning.
EvoBIO 2007: 258-269 | 
| 76 | EE | Rui Li,
Jeroen Eggermont,
Michael T. M. Emmerich,
Ernst G. P. Bovenkamp,
Thomas Bäck,
Jouke Dijkstra,
Johan H. C. Reiber:
Towards Dynamic Fitness Based Partitioning for IntraVascular UltraSound Image Analysis.
EvoWorkshops 2007: 391-398 | 
| 75 | EE | Ofer M. Shir,
Thomas Bäck,
Marc J. J. Vrakking:
On the scalability of evolution strategies in the optimization of dynamic molecular alignment.
GECCO 2007: 2266 | 
| 74 | EE | Ofer M. Shir,
Thomas Bäck:
Performance analysis of niching algorithms based on derandomized-ES variants.
GECCO 2007: 705-712 | 
| 73 | EE | Ofer M. Shir,
Thomas Bäck:
The second harmonic generation case-study as a gateway for es to quantum control problems.
GECCO 2007: 713-721 | 
| 72 | EE | Ofer M. Shir,
Michael Emmerich,
Thomas Bäck,
Marc J. J. Vrakking:
The application of evolutionary multi-criteria optimization to dynamic molecular alignment.
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2007: 4108-4115 | 
| 71 | EE | Ofer M. Shir,
Michael Emmerich,
Thomas Bäck:
Self-Adaptive Niching CMA-ES with Mahalanobis Metric.
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2007: 820-827 | 
| 70 | EE | Ofer M. Shir,
Joost N. Kok,
Thomas Bäck,
Marc J. J. Vrakking:
Gaining Insights into Laser Pulse Shaping by Evolution Strategies.
IWINAC (1) 2007: 467-477 | 
| 69 | EE | Thomas Bäck,
Benedikt Löwe:
Computing and the natural sciences at CiE 2005.
Theor. Comput. Sci. 371(1-2): 1-3 (2007) | 
| 2006 | 
| 68 | EE | Rui Li,
Michael Emmerich,
Ernst G. P. Bovenkamp,
Jeroen Eggermont,
Thomas Bäck,
Jouke Dijkstra,
Johan H. C. Reiber:
Mixed-Integer Evolution Strategies and Their Application to Intravascular Ultrasound Image Analysis.
EvoWorkshops 2006: 415-426 | 
| 67 | EE | Ron Breukelaar,
Michael Emmerich,
Thomas Bäck:
On Interactive Evolution Strategies.
EvoWorkshops 2006: 530-541 | 
| 66 | EE | Ofer M. Shir,
Christian Siedschlag,
Thomas Bäck,
Marc J. J. Vrakking:
The complete-basis-functions parameterization in ES and its application to laser pulse shaping.
GECCO 2006: 1769-1776 | 
| 65 | EE | Ofer M. Shir,
Joost N. Kok,
Thomas Bäck,
Marc J. J. Vrakking:
Learning the Complete-Basis-Functions Parameterization for the Optimization of Dynamic Molecular Alignment by ES.
IDEAL 2006: 410-418 | 
| 64 | EE | Ofer M. Shir,
Thomas Bäck:
Niche Radius Adaptation in the CMA-ES Niching Algorithm.
PPSN 2006: 142-151 | 
| 63 | EE | Rui Li,
Michael T. M. Emmerich,
Jeroen Eggermont,
Ernst G. P. Bovenkamp,
Thomas Bäck,
Jouke Dijkstra,
Johan H. C. Reiber:
Mixed-Integer NK Landscapes.
PPSN 2006: 42-51 | 
| 62 | EE | Eric-Wubbo Lameijer,
Joost N. Kok,
Thomas Bäck,
Adriaan P. IJzerman:
The Molecule Evoluator. An Interactive Evolutionary Algorithm for the Design of Drug-Like Molecules.
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 46(2): 545-552 (2006) | 
| 61 | EE | Eric-Wubbo Lameijer,
Joost N. Kok,
Thomas Bäck,
Adriaan P. IJzerman:
Mining a Chemical Database for Fragment Co-occurrence: Discovery of "Chemical Clichés".
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 46(2): 553-562 (2006) | 
| 60 | EE | Jeroen Kazius,
Siegfried Nijssen,
Joost N. Kok,
Thomas Bäck,
Adriaan P. IJzerman:
Substructure Mining Using Elaborate Chemical Representation.
Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 46(2): 597-605 (2006) | 
| 2005 | 
| 59 | EE | Ofer M. Shir,
Christian Siedschlag,
Thomas Bäck,
Marc J. J. Vrakking:
Niching in Evolution Strategies and Its Application to Laser Pulse Shaping.
Artificial Evolution 2005: 85-96 | 
| 58 | EE | Ofer M. Shir,
Thomas Bäck:
Dynamic niching in evolution strategies with covariance matrix adaptation.
Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2005: 2584-2591 | 
| 57 | EE | Ron Breukelaar,
Thomas Bäck:
Using a genetic algorithm to evolve behavior in multi dimensional cellular automata: emergence of behavior.
GECCO 2005: 107-114 | 
| 56 | EE | Ofer M. Shir,
Thomas Bäck:
Niching in evolution strategies.
GECCO 2005: 915-916 | 
| 55 | EE | Elena V. Samsonova,
Thomas Bäck,
Joost N. Kok,
Adriaan P. IJzerman:
Reliable Hierarchical Clustering with the Self-organizing Map.
IDA 2005: 385-396 | 
| 54 | EE | Thomas Bäck,
Ron Breukelaar:
Using Genetic Algorithms to Evolve Behavior in Cellular Automata.
UC 2005: 1-10 | 
| 53 | EE | Eric-Wubbo Lameijer,
Thomas Bäck,
Joost N. Kok,
Adriaan P. IJzerman:
Evolutionary Algorithms in Drug Design.
Natural Computing 4(3): 177-243 (2005) | 
| 2004 | 
| 52 | EE | Ron Breukelaar,
Thomas Bäck:
Evolving Transition Rules for Multi Dimensional Cellular Automata.
ACRI 2004: 182-191 | 
| 51 | EE | Thomas Bäck,
Ron Breukelaar,
Lars Willmes:
Inverse Design of Cellular Automata by Genetic Algorithms: An Unconventional Programming Paradigm.
UPP 2004: 161-172 | 
| 50 | EE | Jano I. van Hemert,
Thomas Bäck:
Robust Parameter Settings for Variation Operators by Measuring the Resampling Ratio: A Study on Binary Constraint Satisfaction Problems.
J. Heuristics 10(6): 629-640 (2004) | 
| 49 | EE | Thomas Bäck,
Marc Schoenauer,
Lars Willmes:
Preface.
Natural Computing 3(1): 1-3 (2004) | 
| 2003 | 
| 48 | EE | Lars Willmes,
Thomas Bäck:
Multi-criteria Airfoil Design with Evolution Strategies.
EMO 2003: 782-795 | 
| 47 | EE | Elena V. Samsonova,
Thomas Bäck,
Margot W. Beukers,
Adriaan P. IJzerman,
Joost N. Kok:
Combining and Comparing Cluster Methods in a Receptor Database.
IDA 2003: 341-351 | 
| 46 | EE | Lars Willmes,
Thomas Bäck,
Yaochu Jin,
Bernhard Sendhoff:
Comparing neural networks and Kriging for fitness approximation in evolutionary optimization.
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (1) 2003: 663-670 | 
| 45 |   | Siegfried Nijssen,
Thomas Bäck:
An analysis of the behavior of simplified evolutionary algorithms on trap functions.
IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computation 7(1): 11-22 (2003) | 
| 2002 | 
| 44 |   | Boris Naujoks,
Werner Haase,
Jörg Ziegenhirt,
Thomas Bäck:
Multi Objective Airfoil Design Using Single Parent Populations.
GECCO 2002: 1156-1163 | 
| 43 |   | Thomas Bäck,
Daniel Vermeulen,
A. E. Eiben:
Effects of Tax and Evolution in an Artificial Society.
JCIS 2002: 1151-1156 | 
| 42 |   | Thomas Bäck:
Adaptive Business Intelligence Based on Evolution Strategies: Some Application Examples of Self-Adaptive Software.
JCIS 2002: 2-6 | 
| 41 | EE | Jano I. van Hemert,
Thomas Bäck:
Measuring the Searched Space to Guide Efficiency: The Principle and Evidence on Constraint Satisfaction.
PPSN 2002: 23-32 | 
| 40 | EE | Michael Emmerich,
Alexios Giotis,
Mutlu Özdemir,
Thomas Bäck,
Kyriakos Giannakoglou:
Metamodel-Assisted Evolution Strategies.
PPSN 2002: 361-370 | 
| 39 | EE | Boris Naujoks,
Lars Willmes,
Thomas Bäck,
Werner Haase:
Evaluating Multi-criteria Evolutionary Algorithms for Airfoil Optimisation.
PPSN 2002: 841-850 | 
| 38 |   | Thomas Bäck:
Evolutionary Computation: A Guided Tour.
Bulletin of the EATCS 77: 132-166 (2002) | 
| 37 | EE | Thomas Bäck:
Adaptive business intelligence based on evolution strategies: some application examples of self-adaptive software.
Inf. Sci. 148(1-4): 113-121 (2002) | 
| 2001 | 
| 36 |   | Thomas Bäck,
Jeannette M. de Graaf,
Joost N. Kok,
Walter A. Kosters:
Theory of Genetic Algorithms.
Current Trends in Theoretical Computer Science 2001: 546-578 | 
| 2000 | 
| 35 |   | Thomas Bäck,
A. E. Eiben,
Nikolai A. L. van der Vaart:
An Empirical Study on GAs "Without Parameters".
PPSN 2000: 315-324 | 
| 1999 | 
| 34 |   | Thomas Bäck,
Martin Schütz,
Raúl Héctor Gallard,
Guillermo Leguizamón:
Improved Evolutionary Algorithms for Scheduling Problems.
German-Argentinian Workshop on Information Technology 1999: 61-68 | 
| 1998 | 
| 33 |   | A. E. Eiben,
Thomas Bäck,
Marc Schoenauer,
Hans-Paul Schwefel:
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN V, 5th International Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 27-30, 1998, Proceedings
Springer 1998 | 
| 32 |   | Thomas Bäck,
A. E. Eiben,
Marco E. Vink:
A Superior Evolutionary Algorithm for 3-SAT.
Evolutionary Programming 1998: 125-136 | 
| 31 |   | Thomas Bäck:
An Overview of Parameter Control Methods by Self-Adaption in Evolutionary Algorithms.
Fundam. Inform. 35(1-4): 51-66 (1998) | 
| 30 |   | Dirk Wiesmann,
Ulrich Hammel,
Thomas Bäck:
Robust design of multilayer optical coatings by means of evolutionary algorithms.
IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computation 2(4): 162-167 (1998) | 
| 1997 | 
| 29 |   | Thomas Bäck:
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms, East Lansing, MI, USA, July 19-23, 1997
Morgan Kaufmann 1997 | 
| 28 |   | A. E. Eiben,
Thomas Bäck:
Empirical Investigation of Multiparent Recombination Operators in Evolution Strategies.
Evolutionary Computation 5(3): 347-365 (1997) | 
| 27 |   | Thomas Bäck,
Ulrich Hammel,
Hans-Paul Schwefel:
Evolutionary computation: comments on the history and current state.
IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computation 1(1): 3-17 (1997) | 
| 1996 | 
| 26 |   | Thomas Bäck,
Martin Schütz:
Intelligent Mutation Rate Control in Canonical Genetic Algorithms.
ISMIS 1996: 158-167 | 
| 25 |   | Thomas Bäck,
Jochen Heistermann,
Cornelia Kappler,
Michele Zamparelli:
Evolutionary Algorithms Support Refueling of Pressurized Water Reactors.
International Conference on Evolutionary Computation 1996: 104-108 | 
| 24 |   | Thomas Bäck,
Hans-Paul Schwefel:
Evolutionary Computation: An Overview.
International Conference on Evolutionary Computation 1996: 20-29 | 
| 23 |   | Thomas Bäck,
Holger Dörnemann,
Ulrich Hammel,
Pierre Frankhauser:
Modeling Urban Growth by Cellular Automata.
PPSN 1996: 636-645 | 
| 22 |   | Cornelia Kappler,
Thomas Bäck,
Jürgen Heistermann,
A. Van der Velde,
Michele Zamparelli:
Refueling of a Nuclear Power Plant: Comparison of a Naive and a Specialized Mutation Operator.
PPSN 1996: 829-838 | 
| 1995 | 
| 21 |   | Thomas Bäck:
Evolution Strategies: An Alternative Evolutionary Algorithm.
Artificial Evolution 1995: 3-20 | 
| 20 |   | Thomas Bäck,
Martin Schütz,
Sami Khuri:
A Comparative Study of a Penalty Function, a Repair Heuristic and Stochastic Operators with the Set-Covering Problem.
Artificial Evolution 1995: 320-332 | 
| 19 |   | Thomas Bäck,
Martin Schütz:
Evolution Strategies for Mixed-Integer Optimization of Optical Multilayer Systems.
Evolutionary Programming 1995: 33-51 | 
| 18 |   | Thomas Bäck:
Generalized Convergence Models for Tournament- and (mu, lambda)-Selection.
ICGA 1995: 2-8 | 
| 1994 | 
| 17 | EE | Sami Khuri,
Thomas Bäck,
Jörg Heitkötter:
An Evolutionary Approach to Combinatorial Optimization Problems.
ACM Conference on Computer Science 1994: 66-73 | 
| 16 |   | Thomas Bäck:
Order Statistics for Convergence Velocity Analysis of Simplified Evolutionary Algorithms.
FOGA 1994: 91-102 | 
| 15 |   | Thomas Bäck,
Ulrich Hammel:
Evolution Strategies Applied to Perturbed Objective Functions.
International Conference on Evolutionary Computation 1994: 40-45 | 
| 14 |   | Thomas Bäck,
Sami Khuri:
An Evolutionary Heuristic for the Maximum Independent Set Problem.
International Conference on Evolutionary Computation 1994: 531-535 | 
| 13 |   | Thomas Bäck:
Selective Pressure in Evolutionary Algorithms: A Characterization of Selection Mechanisms.
International Conference on Evolutionary Computation 1994: 57-62 | 
| 12 |   | Ulrich Hammel,
Thomas Bäck:
Evolution Strategies on Noisy Functions: How to Improve Convergence Properties.
PPSN 1994: 159-168 | 
| 11 |   | Thomas Bäck:
Parallel Optimization of Evolutionary Algorithms.
PPSN 1994: 418-427 | 
| 10 | EE | Sami Khuri,
Thomas Bäck,
Jörg Heitkötter:
The zero/one multiple knapsack problem and genetic algorithms.
SAC 1994: 188-193 | 
| 9 |   | Thomas Bäck:
Book Review: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms.
Evolutionary Computation 2(2): 181-191 (1994) | 
| 1993 | 
| 8 |   | William M. Spears,
Kenneth A. De Jong,
Thomas Bäck,
David B. Fogel,
Hugo de Garis:
An Overview of Evolutionary Computation.
ECML 1993: 442-459 | 
| 7 |   | Thomas Bäck:
Optimal Mutation Rates in Genetic Search.
ICGA 1993: 2-8 | 
| 6 |   | Thomas Bäck,
Hans-Paul Schwefel:
An Overview of Evolutionary Algorithms for Parameter Optimization.
Evolutionary Computation 1(1): 1-23 (1993) | 
| 1992 | 
| 5 |   | Thomas Bäck:
The Interaction of Mutation Rate, Selection, and Self-Adaptation Within a Genetic Algorithm.
PPSN 1992: 87-96 | 
| 4 |   | Hans-Paul Schwefel,
Thomas Bäck:
Künstliche Evolution - eine intelligente Problemlösungsstrategie?
KI 6(2): 20-27 (1992) | 
| 1991 | 
| 3 |   | Thomas Bäck,
Frank Hoffmeister,
Hans-Paul Schwefel:
A Survey of Evolution Strategies.
ICGA 1991: 2-9 | 
| 2 |   | Thomas Bäck,
Frank Hoffmeister:
Extended Selection Mechanisms in Genetic Algorithms.
ICGA 1991: 92-99 | 
| 1990 | 
| 1 |   | Frank Hoffmeister,
Thomas Bäck:
Genetic Algorithms and Evolution Strategies - Similarities and Differences.
PPSN 1990: 455-469 |