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The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available for you to download
from:
http://www.sigevolution.org
The issue features:
An Interview with Stewart W. Wilson
with an introduction by Martin V. Butz
Reassembling Operator Equalisation
Sara Silva
GE…
The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available for you to download
from:
The issue features:
The newsletter is intended to be viewed electronically.
Several graduate research assistantships are now available at MEDAL for duration of up to 3 years. The assistantships include 9-11 months of salary per academic year and full tuition. The assistants are expected to work on an NSF project “Model-Directed Hybridization: Principled Design of Hybrids of Model Building, Metaheuristics and More Traditional Optimization Techniques”. The […]
Several graduate research assistantships are now available at MEDAL for duration of up to 3 years. The assistantships include 9-11 months of salary per academic year and full tuition. The assistants are expected to work on an NSF project “Model-Directed Hybridization: Principled Design of Hybrids of Model Building, Metaheuristics and More Traditional Optimization Techniques”. The goal of this project is to develop, enhance, analyze and apply hybrids of estimation of distribution algorithms and more traditional optimization techniques. For more information, please visit http://medal.cs.umsl.edu/positions.php.
A new issue of SIGEVOlution, the newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO), is available online at http://www.sigevolution.org/.
A new issue of SIGEVOlution, the newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO), is available online at http://www.sigevolution.org/.
Some of you may know that David E. Goldberg‘s Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL) has been a home for a large collection of over 11,000 articles, theses and books on genetic algorithms and related areas. Dave Goldberg has collected these publications with help with many students to provide a tremendous resource for those who worked […]
Some of you may know that David E. Goldberg‘s Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL) has been a home for a large collection of over 11,000 articles, theses and books on genetic algorithms and related areas. Dave Goldberg has collected these publications with help with many students to provide a tremendous resource for those who worked at IlliGAL. The collection (also named The Clearinghouse for Genetic Algorithms or TCGA) started when Dave was at the University of Alabama, and continued for many years after he joined the University of Illinois and founded IlliGAL.
Since IlliGAL has recently closed, Dave agreed to let us give the library a new home and just yesterday we have completed the move. IlliGAL meant a lot to all of us who had the opportunity to work there. I am grateful for having been a part of IlliGAL and for having a part of IlliGAL at my current lab. Thank you, Dave.
Below are the slides from the talks I presented at GECCO-2011. We are still waiting on permission to post the remaining presentations at OBUPM-2011 and then we will put up those slides as well.
Advanced Neighborhoods and Problem Difficulty Measures
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Below are the slides from the talks I presented at GECCO-2011. We are still waiting on permission to post the remaining presentations at OBUPM-2011 and then we will put up those slides as well.
Below are the embeds of the slides from the talks I presented in GECCO-2011. Soon we should also post slides of the remaining presentations from MEDAL members and those from OBUPM-2011. Using Problem-Specific Knowledge and Learning from Experience in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms View more presentations from pelikan Analysis of Epistasis Correlation on NK Landscapes […]
Below are the embeds of the slides from the talks I presented in GECCO-2011. Soon we should also post slides of the remaining presentations from MEDAL members and those from OBUPM-2011.
At the moment, I am attending the GECCO-2011 Competitions session. GECCO-2011 had 5 competitions: (1) GPUs for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, (2) Evolutionary Art, (3) Visualizing Evolution, (4) Demolition Derby, and (5) Simulated Car Racing 2011. The talks and the results were impressive. Let me just point out that two of the three talks for […]
At the moment, I am attending the GECCO-2011 Competitions session. GECCO-2011 had 5 competitions: (1) GPUs for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, (2) Evolutionary Art, (3) Visualizing Evolution, (4) Demolition Derby, and (5) Simulated Car Racing 2011. The talks and the results were impressive. Let me just point out that two of the three talks for the GPU competition implemented EDAs, specifically, the compact genetic algorithm (cGA) and the Bayesian optimization algorithm (BOA). The speedups in both cases were impressive, and I was really happy to find out about that work.
A while earlier, I attended the best paper session of the GA track, and after the current session, I am planning to go to EDA best paper track. A lot of interesting papers, and again, it’s tough to decide which session to attend.
I am just attending the first session of the estimation of distribution algorithms track (EDA-1) at GECCO-2011 in Dublin, Ireland. The talks are certainly interesting, I am looking forward to read the papers to get more detail. A little earlier today, I attended the human competitive results competition (HUMIES 2011), and I was quite impressed […]
I am just attending the first session of the estimation of distribution algorithms track (EDA-1) at GECCO-2011 in Dublin, Ireland. The talks are certainly interesting, I am looking forward to read the papers to get more detail.
A little earlier today, I attended the human competitive results competition (HUMIES 2011), and I was quite impressed by some of the papers and not so much by others. I must say though that HUMIES never disappoints me, I always try to attend.
Of course, yesterday the OBUPM-2011 took place, where we had 4 great presentations. Hopefully we can put up the slides on the OBUPM-2011 web site soon, so that you can see what you missed if you missed it.
Last but not least, those who missed the karaoke at the GECCO-2011 opening reception may have missed the only opportunity to see some of the GECCO folks sing. To me the karaoke session proved one thing—most of us will do better if we continue working in research, and don’t try to start a career in singing. But the karaoke session was a blast, thanks mainly to Pier Luca. I was told there are videos around of the event, and that is somewhat scary.
Thus far, the only problem with GECCO-2011 is that I cannot attend two or three sessions at once, so the decision making is rather tough at times.
A video of the 2010 Simulated Car Racing Championship at GECCO-2010 can be found on youtube:
The video was edited by Pier Luca Lanzi, the championship was organized by Daniele Loiacono, Luigi Cardamone, Martin V. Butz and Pier Luca Lanzi.
A video of the 2010 Simulated Car Racing Championship at GECCO-2010 can be found on youtube:
The video was edited by Pier Luca Lanzi, the championship was organized by Daniele Loiacono, Luigi Cardamone, Martin V. Butz and Pier Luca Lanzi.