Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

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I’m spreading the gospel of integrated model building at the Frontiers of Science Symposium at Nagoya University in Japan today and tomorrow. Click for the conference home page and program. My talk title is Solving Larger, Faster, and Harder: The Incredible Story of Supermultiplicative Speedups. I’m one of the few soft computing guys here, but […]

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) is the largest conference in genetic and evolutionary computation and it covers a broad range of research areas in genetic and evolutionary computation. The next GECCO (GECCO-2006) will take place in Seattle (WA) on July 8-12, 2006. Since I primarily work in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs), I’d […]

IlliGAL is pleased to announce the publication of following technical reports:

Pelikan, M., Sastry, K., Goldberg, D. E. (2005). Sporadic model building for efficiency enhancement of hBOA. IlliGAL Report No. 2005026. [Abstract] [Full paper in PS] [Full paper in PDF].
Sastry, K., Winward, P., Goldberg, D.E., Lima, C. (2005). Fluctuating crosstalk as a source of deterministic noise […]

A book by E.K.Burke and G.Kendall (eds.), Search Methodologies: Introductory Tutorials in Optimization and Decision Support Techniques, Springer 2005, is now available. A brief description of the book can be found here, and the table of contents of the book is available here.
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Doyouwantcoffee (an architecture blog) has a post (here) about a company in Singapore that is using genetic algorithms in product design. The company, Genometri (I like the name), has a variety of tools, but the ones of relevance to GAmists are Gennovate and Design DJ. According to the site, Gennovate is
Entry Level generative software. Creates […]

I’m in Narita airport in Japan on the way to Sydney, Australia for ACAL 2005 and AI 2005. Giving a talk called Little Models, Big Results (see here).
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The Journal of New Mathematics and Natural Computation is running the first ot two parts of a special issue on chance discovery (volume 1, number 3). A quick note and links to it may be found here.
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Mister Snitch has a nice post about the different styles of bloggers that make up the ecology of blogging here (via Instapundit). Related posts are here and here.
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