Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

Here’s a job posting for a postdoc at the Free University, Amsterdam, to use genetic algorithms to do environmental modeling. The object is to “generate lessons for policy aimed at promoting and steering transitions.”
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Martyn Amos’s blog has a post on his co-authored paper on Second Generation Biocomputing here. An abstract of the paper may be accessed here, but the following excerpt catches the gist of it:
Previous solutions (the “first generation” of biocomputing techniques), whilst reasonably effective, are crude analogues of actual biological systems. We believe that […]

Dan Ashlock has a new textbook on evolutionary computation (see here).
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TEE says “maybe” and has a theory here (with the help of Victor Davis Hanson).
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Machine Learning, Etc. has a nice analysis of the time history of a number of machine learning related keywords using Google scholar here. The data for “genetic algorithms” would seem to suggest that interest in GAs has peaked or leveled-off. Is this so, or is the work in “genetic algorithms” now diversifying into […]

Flags and lollipops says so here.
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I’ve posted the table of contents of chapter 5, “Write for Your Life,” of my forthcoming book, The Entrepreneurial Engineer, over at the eponymous blog (see here). The chapter is divided along process and structural lines with the first part of the chapter devoted to learning to separate creation from criticism and the second […]

Genetic argonaut has a post on the history of evolution strategies here. It is quite a nice post, although my comment tries to set the record straight on both historical and editorial counts:
Nice post on the history of EC. The first “official” meeting of German and US EC interests was actually PPSN in Dortmund in […]

Two students at IIT Madras have used genetic algorithms to optimize the bowling motion in cricket (see here).
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See the relevant post at The Entrepreneurial Engineer.
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