Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

This year, the deadline for the application to the human-competitive is 29 May 2006. It will be held as a part of GECCO 2006, and winners will be awarded $10,000. Basically, it’s a competition for outstanding results in the GEC field. Eight criteria for the application can be found in Dave’s post. Here’s another post […]

I thought I would start posting about EC researchers in India. I’ll start with some of my undergrad professors.
Prof. Nirupam Chakraborti

One of prof. Chakraborti’s main research areas is the applications of genetic and evolutionary algorithms to problems is metallurgy and materials science. He first introduced me to genetic algorithms and I’ve been fascinated by them […]

We are pleased to announce the release of following software for non-commercial purposes:

χ-ary Extended Compact Genetic Algorithm for Matlab in C++. [Download source] [Abstract] [Documentation in PS] [Documentation in PDF].
χ-ary Extended Compact Genetic Algorithm for in C++. [Download source] [Abstract] [Documentation in PS] [Documentation in PDF].
Extended Compact Genetic Algorithm for in C++. [Download source] [Abstract] […]

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

Llorà, X. Goldberg, D. E. (2006). The Innovation Pump: Supporting Creative Processes in Collaborative Engineering. IlliGAL Report No. 2006011. [Abstract] [Full paper in PS] [Full paper in PDF].
Lanzi P.L., Loiacono D. (2006). Standard and Averaging Reinforcement Learning in XCS. IlliGAL Report No. 2006010. [Abstract] [Full […]

Blogging has been changing how people disseminate ideas. There are blogs covering almost any topic one may be able to think about. Blogs were seen as mere on-line entities where people express; just a bunch of digital information here and there. But recently they are starting to change into something you can touch and feel.
Blogbinders […]

Jacob Borgerson, an avid sports fan and former IllIGAL member, has developed a GA to predict the bracket for the NCAA men’s basketball championship. Given that this is still a work very much in progress the GA results are quite good and from what I know of filling the brackets its no easy task.
However Jacob […]

A colleague of mine has pointed me to what appears an interesting paper discussing the foundation of Multiagent Learning. The paper by Yoav Shoham, Rob Powers, and Trond Grenager from Stanford University has a rather intriguing title “If multi-agent learning is the answer, what is the question?”. It will appear on the Journal of Artificial […]

The DISCUS project has always supported that intuition that annotation capabilities are a must for knowledge and information exchange. For instance, imaging that you are analyzing the KeyGraph generated from a particular discussion (here you can find an example). You may want to enrich such graph with your analysis, comments, or related information. Basically, you […]

New Scientist this month is to have a report on a GA-based “hunch engine”, developed by Icosystem (for whom Eric Bonabeau is chief scientist, apparently). IMHO, New Scientist isn’t to be taken as “science” per se, and often contains alot of showey hype, but who knows, this could be interesting.
Related PostsOpen source search […]

PhysOrg is reporting “The World’s Fastest Measurements of Molecular Vibrations” which were apparently partially enabled by a GA (if I’m reading this correctly):
The exact resolution of the time measurements is determined by the difference between neighbouring UV frequencies, and is in the range of tenths of a femtosecond. The change over time can be reconstructed […]