Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

I’ve been working on a major rewrite of my 1995 book, Life Skills and Leadership for Engineers, and I’ve become interested in Martin Seligman’s work on learned helplessness and learned optimism. The research and clininal work is engagingly and brilliantly described in his book Learned Optimism. There are many important thoughts in this […]

One of the symposia that caught my eye at AISB 05 last week was Next Generation approaches to Machine Consciousness: Imagination, Development, Intersubjectivity, and Embodiment. I met a number of the participants of that symposium riding the bus to the train station the first evening, and we had a lively conversation about the prospects […]

The International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems is approaching the decision deadline. We are pleased to report we have had 9 full papers and 8 short papers submitted, and that it looks like we are on our way to a successful workshop. More information about the workshop can be found here.
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Bob Wall at CS 580 - Computational Science Blog refers his students to Genetic Algorithm for Cell Placement. In this paper, Henrik Esbensen of Aarhus University informs the reader of the popular role of simulated annealing for cell placement in VLSI layouts. When this paper was written GAs had been used elsewhere […]

While looking around for more information about TNT Logistics and their use of genetic algorithms last night, I found a nice page for news in machine learning, and genetic and evolutionary computation at cervisia.org. Check it out.
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Manhattan Associates, Inc., the global leader in providing supply chain execution and optimization solutions, licensed its Labor and Slotting solutions to TNT Logistics North America, Inc., a leading provider of supply chain logistics services. Genetic algorithms are to be used to find the most beneficial and ergonomic placement of pickline items. This is a short […]

Regular readers of this blog may have noticed less frequent blogging on my part over the last few weeks. Some of this is due to two weeklong trips, but I’ve also cut back considerably when my wife suggested that I was becoming “obsessed” with blogging. In response to that complaint, I’m now blogging […]

Following up on Claudio Lima’s nice post on SCIgen, the fake paper generator, apparently the World Multi-Conference on Systems, Cybernetics, and Informatics accepted a randomly generated SCIgen paper on a “non-reviewed” basis. The paper has been returned to the hoax team, but they are now seeking (see here) a volunteer with an accepted paper […]

I had good intentions of live blogging from AISB 2005 in Hatfield, England, but the wireless connection wasn’t as a good as I hoped. Nonetheless, the conference was an interesting one, and the symposium I intended was apropos to our work on collaborative systems and innovation support in DISCUS. That symposium, Conversational Informatics […]

A group of grad students, Jeremy Stribling, Max Krohn, and Dan Aguayo, from the PDOS research group at MIT CSAIL developed a program called SCIgen to randomly generate Computer Science papers:
“SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all […]