Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

The website for SIGEVOlution, the newsletter of SIGEVO is now on. The current issue is available here.
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At the AFOSR meeting Marek Druzdzel from Pitt is talking about various ways to go beyond standard ICI and Noisy OR techniques to create Bayes nets that have smaller numbers of parameters. Probablistic ICI, Noisy OR+/OR-, and Demorgan gates are the techniques suggested. Code and papers are cited at his Decision Systems Lab […]

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is using genetic algorithms in design of nuclear power plants (see here). Oak Ridge researchers Mike Hilliard and the late Gunar Liepins were probably the first researchers at ORNL to embrace GAs. I remember meeting them and working with them shortly after joining the faculty of the University of Alabama in […]

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I’m blogging from the Ambassador Room of the Ramada Inn at Fort Walton Beach, Florida. I’m attending the AFOSR Discrete Math and Optimization Program review meeting. Darrell Whitley is the only other GA guy here. Sitting in a seminar room when there are swimming pools, bikinis, beaches to be seen is tough, […]

Regular reader and commentator, Nosophorus, has taken me to task for patenting the ideas behind hBOA (see post and his comments here). I gave a quicky answer in the comments section, but he has persisted in his critique. I’d like to answer all of his comments more completely and formally in this post. Specifically, I […]

Martin Butz is moderating discussion session on techniques for LCSs.
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