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A Little Functionality and Face Lift

It has been a while since the last face lift to this blog. No, I was not planning any major revamp, but a simple one. Since it was released, I had the little green ShareThis button hanging around. I just wanted to balance a bit the elements on the page. I decided to reposition the [...]

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GECCO 2011 Healthier Than Ever

I just got a note from Pier Luca Lanzi about some raw number on this year’s GECCO 2011 conference. The numbers are stagering. I will start with the numbers from the previous editions since GECCO become an ACM conference, just to build up suspense. The numbers of paper submissions to the main conference for the [...]

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GECCO 2011 Submission Deadline: January 26, 2011

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2011) is now inviting paper submissions. GECCO 2011 will be held in Dublin, Ireland, from July 12th till July 16th. The full text of the call for paper can be found here. More information about GECCO 2011 can be found on the conference website, Twitter, and Facebook. The paper [...]

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GECCO 2011: Call for Papers

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2011) is now inviting paper submissions for the conference to be held in Dublin, Ireland, July 12-16, 2011. GECCO-2011 will present the latest high-quality results in the growing field of genetic and evolutionary computation. … Continue reading Continue reading

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GECCO 2011 Competitions

The GECCO 2011 website has been updated with detailed information of this year’s competitions. Interested? Here is the list of open competitions: Demolition derby Evolutionary art GPUs for genetic and evolutionary computation Simulated car racing championship Visualizing evolution Related posts:GECCO 2011 Submission Deadline: January 26, 2011 GECCO 2011: Call for Workshop Proposals GECCO 2010 Around [...]

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GECCO 2011 competitions are here

The GECCO 2011 website has been updated with detailed information of this year’s competitions. Interested? Here is the list of open competitions:

Demolition derby
Evolutionary art
GPUs for genetic and evolutionary computation
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GECCO 2011: Call for Workshop Proposals

The call for workshop proposals for GECCO 2011 is out. The GECCO-2011 program committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the 2011 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2011) in Dublin, Ireland, July 12-16. The deadline for proposals is November 8th. More info at is available at the online call for workshop [...]

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Parallel and Distributed Computational Intelligence book is out for pre-order

“Parallel and Distributed Computational Intelligence” edited by Francisco Fernández de Vega & Erick Cantú-Paz and published by Springer is out for pre-order. The first chapter “When Huge is Routine: Scaling Genetic Algorithms and Estimation of Distribution Algorithms via Data-Intensive Computing” of the book was written together with coauthors Abhishek Verma, Roy Campbell, and David E. [...]

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Meandre 2.0 Alpha Preview = Scala + MongoDB

A lot of water under the bridge has gone by since the first release of Meandre 1.4.X series. In January I went back to the drawing board and start sketching what was going to be 1.5.X series. The slide deck embedded above is a extended list of the thoughts during the process. As usual, I [...]

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Minor Update

If you used to check my Twitter stream in the center column at the bottom of my blog, you would have noticed  I have just replaced it with my Google Buzz profile stream instead. Yes, you can still see the my Twitter activity, but you will also be able to (1) see aggregated content/activity coming from other [...]

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