Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available for you to download from http://www.sigevolution.org. The issue features:

GA in Municipal Water Systems by Zheng Yi Wu
Building Bridges by Juan-Julián Merelo & Carlos Cotta
Web Usage of the GP Bibliography by William B. Langdon
GECCO-2007 News
Dissertation corner
Forthcoming papers
Calls & calendar

The newsletter is intended to be viewed electronically.
Pier Luca Lanzi […]

Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) announced that it has selected the Evolution Robotics Software Platform (ERSP®) to provide a standard architecture for robotic application development in Taiwan. More here.
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Evolutionary Computation pioneer Lawrence Fogel passed away on Sunday. 
Mr. Fogel is survived by his wife, Eva; sons, David and Gary; and three grandchildren.
The family suggests donations to the Scripps
Health Foundation to benefit the Renal Research Collaborative, P.O. Box
2669, La Jolla, CA, 92038.
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IlliGAL is pleased to announce the publication of following technical reports:
Sastry K. Goldberg D. E. Llorà X. (2007). Towards Billion Bit Optimization via Efficient Genetic Algorithms. IlliGAL Report No. 2007007. [Abstract] [Full paper in PS] [Full paper in PDF].
Llorà X. Reddy R. Matesic B. Bhargava R. (2007). Towards Better than Human Capability in Diagnosing Prostate […]

Frankly, much traditional operations research (OR) seems locked in 1950s time warp, but Mike Trick's OR blog is worth a read (here).  Trick seems to understand that there is a wider world of systems and people out there that OR needs to do a better job of serving.
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here and here.  I was supposed to attend this workshop originally, but family concerns kept me at home.
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The lecture ETC lecture today (14 Feb) by Gary Downey (see here) is canceled because Champaign has largely been shut down by the winter storm.  
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Javarunner reports that version 3.2RC1 of the Java Genetic Algorithm Package (JGAP) here. 
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Gary Downey, an expert on differences in engineering culture from Viriginia Tech, will speak at 12 noon on Wednesday, February 14, 2007, at the NCSA Auditorium at the University of Illinois.  More details on the lecture are here.  This talk is one of seven slated for the Spring semester in the Engineering, Technology & Culture […]

Hearne Scientific Software in Melbourne, Australia has released a new version of their software CLIMEX with genetic algorithms used to tune model parameters (press release here).  Among the features in version three is the following:

Automatic fitting of the parameter values that determine the Stress indices is available via a genetic algorithm based fitting routine.

 
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