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DCoL: New release v1.1

A new version of the data complexity library (DCoL) in C++ is available at http://dcol.sourceforge.net/.
DCoL provides the implementation of a set of measures designed to characterize the apparent complexity of data sets for supervised learning, which were originally proposed by Ho and Basu (2002). More specifically, the implemented measures focus on the complexity of the [...] Continue reading

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Universitat d’Estiu d’Andorra

After a first-rate opening in May with the talk given by Prof. Cirac, the 27th edition of the Universitat d’Estiu d’Andorra officially starts today, Aug, 30 with a promising agenda:
6:00 pm: Equilibri climàtic del planeta Terra (Climate balance on planet Earth), presented by Josefina Castellví Piulachs, oceanographer specialized in marine bacteriology (Barcelona).
7:30 pm: La [...] Continue reading

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ICPR 2010 – Contest: Extended Deadline May, 26

Call for Contest Participation – Classifier domains of competence: The landscape contest (ICPR 2010)
Classifier domains of competence: The landscape contest is a research competition aimed at finding out the relation between data complexity and the performance of learners. Comparing your techniques to those of other participants on targeted-complexity [...] Continue reading

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ICPR 2010 – Contest

Classifier domains of competence: The landscape contest is a research competition aimed at finding out the relation between data complexity and the performance of learners. Comparing your techniques to those of other participants may contribute to enrich our understanding of the behavior of machine learning and open further research lines. Contest participants are allowed to [...] Continue reading

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AI: Reality or fiction?

It seems that the artificial intelligence related in science fiction is not as far from reality as we used to think. The main character of the film AI, a little boy belonging to a robot series capable of emulating human behavior, is now a model to reach in current scientific projects, which aim at providing [...] Continue reading

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GECCO 2009: A binary pre-teenager

GECCO, one of the most relevant conferences on evolutionary computation, starts its 10th edition today in Montréal (Canada). The organization committee has prepared a lot of surprises within a tight agenda. From July 8 to July 12, full days of tutorials, workshops, poster sessions, talks, competitions, awards, the birthday, and the star talk by John [...] Continue reading

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Independence Day

New York (USA)

Morning saw the City calm after eleven days of rains. This sunny day allowed people to have picnics and enjoy a peaceful holiday. At eight, however, things got hectic. The roofs of the buildings welcomed the most impatient onlookers. Neighbor communities began the preparations with the following ingredients: barbecues, beers, and joy. The [...] Continue reading

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There is no thirteen

Some days ago I noticed that there is no button thirteen in the control panel of the elevator of my building. The owner, the architect, or someone else should be superstitious. Because of that, an ad hoc control panel was made and the displayer programming was adjusted to jump from 12 to 14. Nevertheless, despite [...] Continue reading

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The mysterious world of the quantum physics

Three weeks ago I read the post Prof. Cirac interviewed about quantum physics and theory information, where you can find the link to the video of the Cirac’s interview by a Catalan TV. It is amazing how Prof. Cirac introduces some basics of the quantum physics by using easy words and a couple of dices. [...] Continue reading

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HAIS 2009

The special session Knowledge extraction based on evolutionary learning, organized by Salvador García, Albert Orriols, and José Otero, was one of the opening sessions of the 4th international conference on hybrid artificial intelligent systems (HAIS 2009).
Its program, full of interesting talks that discussed the new trends for knowledge extraction processes by means of evolutionary algorithms, [...] Continue reading

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