Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

In previous posts (chain back starting here), I wrote about my son Max and our experiences during college visits last spring and during the summer. The saga continues, and we are well into the college and scholarship application season. Max has applied to 9 schools: Earlham, Eckerd, Harvard, Illinois, Kalamazoo, Northwestern (Medill […]

IlliGAL alum Y-p Chen has published his book on the linkage learning genetic algorithm. Here is more detailed information about the book:
TITLE: Extending the Scalability of Linkage Learning Genetic Algorithms: Theory & Practice
AUTHOR: Ying-ping Chen
PUBLISHER: Springer, 2005, XX, 120 p. 37 illus., HardcoverISBN: 3-540-28459-1
ABOUT: Genetic algorithms (GAs) are powerful search techniques based on principles of […]

Some time ago I’ve read a few papers from Marc Toussaint from the University of Edinburgh, who proposes and discusses Compression Evolutionary Algorithms (CEAs). CEAs can be seen as an alternative to standard Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs), such as ECGA and BOA. Some papers can be found at Marc’s webpage.
The basic idea in EDAs […]

The Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab has two openings for post-doctoral researchers, one to two years, and one PhD position. The openings are for non Italians only.
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The first issue of the new electronic journal Bayesian Analysis has been
published at http://ba.stat.cmu.edu. Check it out.
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The 3.0.0 version (with major updates) of Open BEAGLE has been released and can be downloaded here.
Open BEAGLE is a C++ evolutionary computation framework. It provides a high-level software environment to do any kind of evolutionary computation, with support for tree-based genetic programming, bit string, integer-valued vector and real-valued vector genetic algorithms, evolution strategy, co-evolution, […]

Kalyan Deb receives Bhatnagar prize from Prime Minister of India
On September 28, 2005, IlliGAL alum, Kalyanmoy Deb (1st on left) received the prestigious Bhatnagar award from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (2nd from right). More information is available here.
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