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SIGEVO Impact Award

Established in 2009, the SIGEVO Impact award recognizes up to three papers a year that were published in the GECCO conference 10 years earlier and which are both highly cited and deemed to be seminal by the SIGEVO Executive Committee. Congratulations to all winners!

2022 SIGEVO Impact Award

Genetic programming needs better benchmarks.
McDermott, J., White, D.R., Luke, S., Manzoni, L., Castelli, M., Vanneschi, L., Jaśkowski, W., Krawiec, K., Harper, R., De Jong, K., O'Reilly, U.-M. GECCO'12, pp. 791–798.

2021 SIGEVO Impact Award

Evolving a diversity of creatures through novelty search and local competition.
Lehman, J., Stanley, K.O. GECCO'11, pp. 211-218.

Exploratory landscape analysis.
Mersmann, O., Bischl, B., Trautmann, H., Preuss, M., Weihs, C., Rudolph, G.
GECCO'11, pp. 829-836.

2020 SIGEVO Impact Award

Comparing results of 31 algorithms from the black-box optimization benchmarking BBOB-2009.
Nikolaus Hansen, Anne Auger, Raymond Ros, Steffen Finck, Petr Pošík.
In Jürgen Branke (Ed.), GECCO '10: Proceedings of the 12th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation, July 2010, ACM, Pages 1689–1696, 2010.

2019 SIGEVO Impact Award

A genetic programming approach to automated software repair.
Stephanie Forrest, ThanhVu Nguyen, Westley Weimer, and Claire Le Goues.
In Günther Raidl (Ed.), Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, pp 947-954, ACM, 2009.

2018 SIGEVO Impact Award

Adaptive operator selection with dynamic multi-armed bandits.
Luis DaCosta, Alvaro Fialho, Marc Schoenauer, and Michèle Sebag.
In Maarten Keijzer (Ed), Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, pp 913-920, ACM, 2008.

2017 SIGEVO Impact Award

Techniques for highly multiobjective optimisation: some nondominated points are better than others.
DW Corne, JD Knowles.
In Hod Lipson (Ed), Proceedings of the 9th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, pp 773-780, ACM, 2007.

2016 SIGEVO Impact Award

Two awards have been awarded in 2016:
Reference point based multi-objective optimization using evolutionary algorithms.
Kalyanmoy Deb, and J. Sundar.
In: Mike Catolico (Eds), Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, pp 635-642, ACM, 2006.

Search-based determination of refactorings for improving the class structure of object-oriented systems.
Olaf Seng, Johannes Stammel, and David Burkhart.
In: Mike Catolico (Eds), Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, pp 1909-1916, ACM, 2006.

2015 SIGEVO Impact Award

An approach for QoS-aware service composition based on genetic algorithms.
Gerardo Canfora, Massimiliano Di Penta, Raffaele Esposito, and Maria Luisa Villani.
In: Hans-Georg Beyer and Una-May O'Reilly (Eds), Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, pp 1069-1075, ACM, 2005.

2014 SIGEVO Impact Award

Real-Valued Negative Selection Algorithm with Variable-Sized Detectors.
Z. Ji and D. Dasgupta.
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Seattle, 2004
K. Deb et al. (Eds.), Springer, LNCS Vol 3102, New York, 2004, pp. 287 - 298

2013 SIGEVO Impact Award

A Non-dominated Particle Swarm Optimizer for Multiobjective Optimization.
X. Li.
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Chicago, 2003
E. Cantu-Paz, J.A. Foster et al. (Eds.), Springer, LNCS Vol 2723, New York, 2003, pp. 37 - 48

2012 SIGEVO Impact Award

A Racing Algorithm for Configuring Metaheuristics.
M. Birattari, T. Stuetzle, L. Paquete, K. Varrentrapp.
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, New York, 2002
W.B. Langdon et al. (Eds.), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, 2002, pp. 11 - 18

2011 SIGEVO Impact Award

Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimizer with Breeding and Subpopulations.
M. Lovbjerg, T.K. Rasmussen and T. Krink.
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, San Francisco, 2001
L. Spector (Ed.), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, 2001, pp. 469 - 476. Note that the link is to a PDF at PSU.

2010 SIGEVO Impact Award

A Memetic Algorithm With Self-Adaptive Local Search: TSP as a case study.
Natalio Krasnogor and Jim Smith.
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Las Vegas, 2000
L. Darrell Whitley et al. (Eds), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, 2000, pp. 987-994.

2009 SIGEVO Impact Award

Two awards were awarded for the first edition of the Impact Award:

BOA: The Bayesian Optimization Algorithm.
M. Pelikan, D. Goldberg, and E. Cantu-Paz.
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 1999.
Wolfgang Banzhaf et al., Eds., Morgan Kaufmann, pp 525-532.

Immunity by Design: An Artificial Immune System.
S. Hofmeyer and S. Forrest.
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 1999.
Wolfgang Banzhaf et al., Eds., Morgan Kaufmann, pp 1289-1296.