Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

After modifying the web site look a few months ago, we’ve moved the Illinois Genetic Algorithm Laboratory website to the latest version of WordPress to simplify user management, facilitate updates, and improve security.   Over the course of the next few weeks we will be tweaking the site to get it up to full speed, but […]

IlliGAL postdoc Noriko Imafuji Yasui (and her coauthors Llora, Goldberg, Washida & Tamura) took the best paper award at the 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2007) in Portugal last week.  The paper Delineating Topic and Discussant Transitions in Online Collaborative Environments is available in pdf format here. 
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I've posted the ppt from module 4, Tech Visionaries & Models, of my course Creative Modeling for Tech Visionaries over at TEE here.  Links to modules 1, 2 & 3 are posted below the slideshare viewer.
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I was browing around and came across my son Max's last penguin comic and thought I'd post it here since pictures get more hits and visitors than words.

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Apparently, GAs were invented at the Santa Fe Institute, according to a blog post by Anders Bylund (here) about Comac McCarthy on Oprah:

Traditional economics mixed with chaos theory and particle physics to produce Brian Arthur's economic law of increasing returns. Evolutionary theory plus computer science spawned the discipline of evolutionary computing and genetic algorithms at the […]

over at TEE.
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The third module from my Creative Modeling for Tech Visionaries course is available in a powerpoint reader over at TEE.
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Inspired by Ray Kurzweil's writing, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence is cranking up its operations, and it recently inaugurated its blog here.  Ben Goertzel's involvement as Director of Research ensures a role for genetic algorithms and genetic programming in helping to bring about the singularity.
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The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available for you to download from http://www.sigevolution.org. The issue features:

EC Practitioners: Results of the First Surveyby Gregory S. Hornby & Tina Yu
Interactive Music Composition, by Ying-ping Chen
GECCO-2007 Highlights

Best Papers Nominees
The Competitions
The Workshops
The Tutorials

announcements
dissertation corner
forthcoming papers
calls & calendar

The newsletter is intended to be viewed electronically.
Pier Luca Lanzi (EIC)
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I saw a post on the genetic programming list, I think, on a "new" kind of optimization algorithm called, get this, invasive weed optmization. I know nothing about the crux of what's being done or claimed for IWO, but it seems to me we've seen this sort of thing before.  It's almost a recipe:

Take a […]