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TCGA has a new home

IlliGAL's TCGA Library

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.

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 […]

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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 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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