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Protect yourself from genetic algorithms’ surprises


I just ran into the comic strip below at xkcd. I am still laughing now. Fitness functions are tricky. Once somebody told me that genetic algorithms always get their target; the main problem is to explain what the target is. If you want to learn a “fountain pen”, you better be accurate defining it or […]

I just ran into the comic strip below at xkcd. I am still laughing now. Fitness functions are tricky. Once somebody told me that genetic algorithms always get their target; the main problem is to explain what the target is. If you want to learn a “fountain pen”, you better be accurate defining it or you may end up getting an unexpected all-terrain “pencil”. Yes, I know the example is quite solution free, but still has some truth to it. How many times have you end up getting something you did not expect, only because evolution find a better fitted crack in your description? Anyway, it is fun what you end running into on the Internet ;)

 

HAIS’09: Special session on “Knowledge Extraction based on Evolutionary Learning”

CALL FOR PAPERS
The special session on Knowledge Extraction based on Evolutionary Learning in the 4th Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems (HAIS 2009) aims at bringing together researchers in Knowledge Extraction based on Evolutionary Learning to discuss new trends for the research in the field.
This special session intends to be a forum for researchers to […]

CALL FOR PAPERS
The special session on Knowledge Extraction based on Evolutionary Learning in the 4th Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems (HAIS 2009) aims at bringing together researchers in Knowledge Extraction based on Evolutionary Learning to discuss new trends for the research in the field.
This special session intends to be a forum for researchers to […]

Prof. Goldberg’s interview by “El Mundo”

Two weeks ago, one of the most important researchers in evolutionary computation visited the GRSI. After 25 years of an intense and extensive research on genetic algorithms, our guest, Prof. David E. Goldberg, focuses his interest on a new field, the entrepreneurship, where he displays his creativity to explore which non-technical skills an […]

Two weeks ago, one of the most important researchers in evolutionary computation visited the GRSI. After 25 years of an intense and extensive research on genetic algorithms, our guest, Prof. David E. Goldberg, focuses his interest on a new field, the entrepreneurship, where he displays his creativity to explore which non-technical skills an […]

Rubén’s and Núria’s tipping point on their way toward completion

 

Today, Núria Macià  and Rubén Nicolàs, two of the most promising PhD students in our lab, have set and explained the basis of the work that will result, with no doubt,  in two fantastic PhD thesis in little time. Please, join me in congratulating both Rubén and Núria as well as their supervisors Elisabet Golobardes and […]

 

Today, Núria Macià  and Rubén Nicolàs, two of the most promising PhD students in our lab, have set and explained the basis of the work that will result, with no doubt,  in two fantastic PhD thesis in little time. Please, join me in congratulating both Rubén and Núria as well as their supervisors Elisabet Golobardes and […]

Congratulations Dr. Giovanni E. Pazienza

Yesterday, Giovanni Pazienza received his PhD degree. The examining committee awarded the thesis and the presentation, entitled Aspects of algorithms and dynamics of cellular paradigms, with an Excellent Cum Laude. They also promised him a brilliant research career for his talent, dynamism, energy, and for many other of his qualities such as… “universality […]

Yesterday, Giovanni Pazienza received his PhD degree. The examining committee awarded the thesis and the presentation, entitled Aspects of algorithms and dynamics of cellular paradigms, with an Excellent Cum Laude. They also promised him a brilliant research career for his talent, dynamism, energy, and for many other of his qualities such as… “universality […]

GECCO-2009: Less than a month until January 14 deadline for paper submission

It’s now less than a month until the deadline for paper submission for GECCO-2009, which will be the first GECCO conference in Canada. The conference will take place in Montreal, Canada on July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Sunday). The deadline for submitting papers to GECCO-2009 is January 14, 2009. The general chair of GECCO-2009 is Franz Rothlauf.
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It’s now less than a month until the deadline for paper submission for GECCO-2009, which will be the first GECCO conference in Canada. The conference will take place in Montreal, Canada on July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Sunday). The deadline for submitting papers to GECCO-2009 is January 14, 2009. The general chair of GECCO-2009 is Franz Rothlauf.

Besides the 40 tutorials, 13 workshops, and several great competitions, GECCO-2009 will feature a number of other events, including student party, social event with dinner and birthday cake, poster session and hors d’oeuvre reception, art exhibition, and 3rd Annual Job Shop.

For more details, check out GECCO-2009 web site. Download the PDF of the GECCO-2009 call for papers here. GECCO banners can be found here.

Many congrats Dr. Albert Orriols-Puig

On Friday 12, Albert Orriols received his PhD degree. He presented his work entitled New challenges in learning classifier systems: Mining rarities and evolving fuzzy models with a magnificent mise-en-scène which deserved the most sincere congratulations of the examining committee, especially from Prof. Goldberg who remarked that it was one of the best dissertation […]

On Friday 12, Albert Orriols received his PhD degree. He presented his work entitled New challenges in learning classifier systems: Mining rarities and evolving fuzzy models with a magnificent mise-en-scène which deserved the most sincere congratulations of the examining committee, especially from Prof. Goldberg who remarked that it was one of the best dissertation […]

A little participation at ICPR 2008

The International Conference on Pattern Recognition finished last Thursday in Tampa, Florida. 1631 papers by 3556 authors from 47 countries were submitted of which 1006 were accepted and grouped into 74 regular and 16 poster sessions. In one of the latter, we found a work on synthetic data set generation based on […]

The International Conference on Pattern Recognition finished last Thursday in Tampa, Florida. 1631 papers by 3556 authors from 47 countries were submitted of which 1006 were accepted and grouped into 74 regular and 16 poster sessions. In one of the latter, we found a work on synthetic data set generation based on […]