Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

Recently, Molevolve library for modeling peptide structures using genetic algorithms was added to www.freshmeat.net (a great source for open source code):
Molevolve is a Java library for running a Genetic Algorithm (GA) to model the 3-dimensional structures of peptide chains from amino-acid sequences. Client code can specify its own peptide chain model, fitness functions and GA […]

Chris Oei’s fine MS thesis (C. K. Oei (1992). Walsh function analysis of genetic algorithms of non-binary strings. Master’s thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science, Urbana, IL) is available again here. Although it is 13 years old, it still deserves a close reading, if you haven’t done so already.
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Complex networks space of Jerry has a cool list of Matlab toolboxes, including a number of genetic algorithms.
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A paper published by a team at the University of Southampton reports the use of genetic algorithms to create biologically interpretable blocks within a hidden Markov model for genetic sequence analysis:
The Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are widely used for biological sequence analysis because of their ability to incorporate biological information in their structure. An automatic […]

In an article on utility computing (time-sharing on steroids?) I noticed a mention of a company called Genalytics that uses genetic algorithms in a variety of marketing applications. A list of typical services is given here, and the various product offerings are given here. The chief architect behind the evolutionary computating system in Genalytics […]

Rob Smith blogged about IBM tools for document evolution visualization here. Visualization is taking a more prominent place on the path to document and communication analysis. DISCUS, as mentioned in previous blogs here and here, visualization of communications plays a central role on the creativity and innovation support.
One tool that we have been extensively using […]

I’d like to point out two recent IlliGAL reports written by Martin Butz et al., namely the IlliGAL Reports No. 2005010 and 2005011, which discuss the use of Bayesian networks of BOA and marginal product models of ECGA in the well-known XCS learning classifier system of Stewart W. Wilson. This work shows that just as […]

Greg Hornby and Tina Yu of the Evolutionary Computation in Practice track at GECCO-2005 are taking a survey of evolutionary computation educational background and employment here. Why not take a few minutes and fill it out? Also check out the ECP track here. The ECP track is devoted to practicing computational evolutionaries […]

Nosophorus reports at the Genetic Argonaut that his prof in a performance analysis course said that soft computing approaches are for homosexuals (Brazilian political correctness is somewhat different than the North American kind, I guess). I love the smell of a reasoned argument in the morning (see related post on toaster convergence).
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It must be IlliGAL-relevant-blog-day on SlashDot.
They’re echoing an item from Hackaday on Mindstorm robots that are designed meet up and exchange code in a sex-like fashion:
” when i released my robots for the first time, the software that i initialized them with was not ideally suited for the environment i placed them in. occasionally […]