SIGEVOlution Volume 4 Issue 4 is now available

Volume 4 Issue 4 of the SIGEVOlution Newsletter is now available online. The issue features

Galactic Arms Race by Erin J. Hastings and Kenneth O. Stanley
A Perl Primer for EA Practitioners by Juan-Julián Merelo
New issues of journals
Calls & ca…

Volume 4 Issue 4 of the SIGEVOlution Newsletter is now available online. The issue features

  • Galactic Arms Race by Erin J. Hastings and Kenneth O. Stanley
  • A Perl Primer for EA Practitioners by Juan-Julián Merelo
  • New issues of journals
  • Calls & calendar

The Perils and Pleasures of Interdisciplinarity

Yesterday David E. Goldberg 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 slides of the talk are available via slideshare:
The Perils & Pleasures of Interdisciplinarity
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Yesterday David E. Goldberg 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 slides of the talk are available via slideshare:

For a related post, visit IlliGAL Blogging.

New MEDAL reports available online

We are pleased to announce the following MEDAL technical reports:
MEDAL Report No. 2010005
Loopy Substructural Local Search for the Bayesian Optimization Algorithm
Claudio F. Lima, Martin Pelikan, Fernando G. Lobo, and David E. Goldberg (2010)
[Abstract] [Download PDF]
MEDAL Report No. 2010004
Model Accuracy in the Bayesian Optimization Algorithm
Claudio F. Lima, Fernando G. Lobo, Martin Pelikan, and David E. […]

We are pleased to announce the following MEDAL technical reports:

MEDAL Report No. 2010005
Loopy Substructural Local Search for the Bayesian Optimization Algorithm
Claudio F. Lima, Martin Pelikan, Fernando G. Lobo, and David E. Goldberg (2010)
[Abstract] [Download PDF]

MEDAL Report No. 2010004
Model Accuracy in the Bayesian Optimization Algorithm
Claudio F. Lima, Fernando G. Lobo, Martin Pelikan, and David E. Goldberg (2010)
[Abstract] [Download PDF]

MEDAL Report No. 2010003
Network crossover performance on NK landscapes and deceptive problems
Mark W Hauschild and Martin Pelikan (2010)
[Abstract] [Download PDF]

MEDAL Report No. 2010002
Spurious Dependencies and EDA Scalability
Elizabeth Radetic and Martin Pelikan (2010)
[Abstract] [Download PDF]

MEDAL Report No. 2010001
NK Landscapes, Problem Difficulty, and Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms
Martin Pelikan (2010)
[Abstract] [Download PDF]

Using a genetic algorithm to design 3D solar panels

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Several weeks ago MSNBC published an article Origami boosts solar panel productivity, which discusses the design of 3D solar panels. A genetic algorithm is used in the discussed work to find the optimal shape of the 3D solar panels. From the original article:

Assuming a roughly 1,075-square-foot area (100 square meters), flat […]

Solar Panel

Several weeks ago MSNBC published an article Origami boosts solar panel productivity, which discusses the design of 3D solar panels. A genetic algorithm is used in the discussed work to find the optimal shape of the 3D solar panels. From the original article:

Assuming a roughly 1,075-square-foot area (100 square meters), flat solar panels would generate roughly 50 kilowatt-hours daily. In comparison, the best 3-D structures the researchers came up with — jagged clusters of 64 triangles — could harvest more than 60 kilowatt-hours daily if the devices were 6.5-feet high (2 meters) and up to 120 kilowatt-hours daily if the designs was roughly 33-feet high (10 meters).

Not your grandmother’s genetic algorithm!

The video of David E. Goldberg’s talk on genetic algorithms entitled Not your Grandmother’s Genetic Algorithm is available on youtube.com. The talk covers topics from the simple genetic algorithm to advanced estimation of distribution algorithms, scalability theory of genetic algorithms and practical solutions to noisy problems of over one billion variables. An amazing lecture, and […]

The video of David E. Goldberg’s talk on genetic algorithms entitled Not your Grandmother’s Genetic Algorithm is available on youtube.com. The talk covers topics from the simple genetic algorithm to advanced estimation of distribution algorithms, scalability theory of genetic algorithms and practical solutions to noisy problems of over one billion variables. An amazing lecture, and a must-see for anyone interested in evolutionary computation and stochastic optimization.

The links to the videos: Part 1, part 2, part 3.

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Optimization by Building and Using Probabilistic Models (OBUPM-2010) Workshop

The workshop Optimization by Building and Using Probabilistic Models (OBUPM-2010) will take place at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010) in Portland, OR. OBUPM-2010 is organized by Mark Hauschild and Martin Pelikan.
We look forward to seeing you there and invite submission of papers for the workshop. The deadline for paper submission is March 25, […]

The workshop Optimization by Building and Using Probabilistic Models (OBUPM-2010) will take place at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010) in Portland, OR. OBUPM-2010 is organized by Mark Hauschild and Martin Pelikan.

We look forward to seeing you there and invite submission of papers for the workshop. The deadline for paper submission is March 25, 2010. Please check the website of OBUPM-2010 for more detailed information.

New issue of SIGEVOlution is out

A new issue of the SIGEVOlution newsletter is now out (volume 4, issue 3). SIGEVOlution is the newsletter of ACM SIGEVO, the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation.

A new issue of the SIGEVOlution newsletter is now out (volume 4, issue 3). SIGEVOlution is the newsletter of ACM SIGEVO, the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation.

Mark your calendars, write a paper, and come to GECCO-2010 in Portland

The paper submission deadline for my favorite conference is getting close, it’s just a bit over a month away. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2010 (GECCO-2010) will take place in Portland, OR (July 7-11, 2010) and the deadline for submitting full papers to GECCO-2010 is January 13, 2010. Mark your calendars, write a paper, submit […]

The paper submission deadline for my favorite conference is getting close, it’s just a bit over a month away. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2010 (GECCO-2010) will take place in Portland, OR (July 7-11, 2010) and the deadline for submitting full papers to GECCO-2010 is January 13, 2010. Mark your calendars, write a paper, submit it, and get ready for a great event!

The topics include genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, real-world applications, learning classifier systems and other genetics-based machine learning, evolvable hardware, artificial life, adaptive behavior, ant colony optimization, swarm intelligence, biological applications, evolutionary robotics, coevolution, artificial immune systems, and more.

The web page of GECCO-2010 can be found here. Check out the web page for details on paper submission, venue and planned events. See you in Portland!