Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

In yesterday’s main Gamasutra technical feature, Rick Strom explored the possibility of improving in-game AI by evolving pathfinding algorithms using genetic programming. More information can be found here.
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Web wire reports that MWH Soft released “first-of-its-kind InfoWater VCM, The Ultimate Solution for Infrastructure Criticality and Vulnerability Assessment”. The software contains a genetic algorithm as one of its components:

Built atop ArcGIS (ESRI, Redlands, CA) and drawing on the most advanced numerical computation and genetic algorithms optimization technologies, Infowater effortlessly reads GIS datasets; corrects network […]

The Missouri Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Laboratory (MEDAL) is pleased to announce publication of the following MEDAL technical reports:

MEDAL Report No. 2006007
Substructural Neighborhoods for Local Search in the Bayesian Optimization Algorithm
Claudio F. Lima, Martin Pelikan, Kumara Sastry, Martin Butz, David E. Goldberg, and Fernando G. Lobo (2006)
Also IlliGAL Report No. 2006021.
MEDAL Report No. 2006006
Population […]

The workshop Optimization by Building and Using Probabilistic Models (OBUPM-2006) will take place at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2006) in Seattle, WA. OBUPM-2006 has been scheduled for the afternoon session of GECCO-2006 on Sunday, July 9, 2006. The workshop is organized by Peter A.N. Bosman, Joern Grahl, Kumara Sastry and Martin Pelikan.
The list […]

The preliminary schedule for the GECCO conference (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference) is posted here and it looks like another winner. Even years are typically slow ones, but conference registration is ahead of plans and it looks as though attendance will keep pace with recent conferences. More information about registration can be found here.
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The special issue of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (IJCIR) with the focus on evolutionary multiobjective optimization is now available online here. The special issue has been edited by Marco Laumanns, Sanaz Mostaghim, Günter Rudolph, and Jürgen Teich.
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at TEE here.
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Bruker Daltonics ClinProTools 2.1 uses genetic algorithms and other techniques for biomarker panel analysis, biofluid profiling, multivariate data analysis of large sample cohorts, classical statistics and sample classification (see here):
ClinProTools 2.1 now includes many additional features for data analysis and visualization: the new proprietary Supervised Neural Network(TM) algorithm allows a third independent multiclass, multivariate analysis […]

For a paper on using genetic algorithms to simulate rodent populations, see here.
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