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Loopy Substructural Local Search for the Bayesian Optimization Algorithm

This paper presents a local search method for the Bayesian optimization algorithm (BOA) based on the concepts of substructural neighborhoods and loopy belief propagation. The proba- bilistic model of BOA, which automatically identifies important problem substructures, is used to define … Continue reading Continue reading

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Model Accuracy in the Bayesian Optimization Algorithm

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are particularly suited to solve problems for which there is not much information available. From this standpoint, estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs), which guide the search by using probabilistic models of the population, have brought a new … Continue reading Continue reading

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Scaling eCGA Model Building via Data-Intensive Computing

This paper shows how the extended compact genetic algorithm can be scaled using data- intensive computing techniques such as MapReduce. Two different frameworks (Hadoop and MongoDB) are used to deploy MapReduce implementations of the compact and extended com- pact genetic … Continue reading Continue reading

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Live from Dublin

IlliGAL director David E. Goldberg is tweeting live from the IEEE Conference on Transforming Engineering Education at Dublin.  Right now there is a panel discussing whether transformation is needed and if so what needs to be transformed.  Follow the thread … Continue reading Continue reading

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The perils and pleasures of interdisciplinarity

IlliGAL director David E. Goldberg just gave a talk on “The Perils and Pleasures of Interdisciplinarity” at a Workshop on the Challenges in Top-Down, Bottom-up and Computational Approaches in Synthetic Biology.  The talk is available in the viewer below:Related talks … Continue reading Continue reading

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XCSLib: The XCS Classifier System Library

for IlliGAL Report No. 2009005: The XCS Library (XCSLib) is an open source C++ library for genetics-based machine learning and learning classifier systems. It provides (i) several reusable components that can be employed to design new learning paradigms inspired to … Continue reading Continue reading

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The Entrepreneurial Engineer

Entrepreneurial times call for The Entrepreneurial Engineer
In an age when technology and business are merging as never before, today’s engineers need skills matched with the times. Today, career success as an engineer is determined as much by an ability to communicate with coworkers, sell ideas, and manage time as by talent at manipulating a Laplace [...] Continue reading

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The Entrepreneurial Engineer

Entrepreneurial times call for The Entrepreneurial Engineer In an age when technology and business are merging as never before, today’s engineers need skills matched with the times. Today, career success as an engineer is determined as much by an ability … Continue reading Continue reading

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Single and Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm Toolbox for Matlab in C++

for IlliGAL Report No. 2007017.
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Single and Multiobjective Genetic Algorithm Toolbox for Matlab in C++

for IlliGAL Report No. 2007017.
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