Archive for 'Genetic algorithms'
Bury the cold war curriculum
NOW!! Over at The Entrepreneurial Engineer here.
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Posted by David E. Goldberg on April 30th, 2008 under Genetic algorithms
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SIGEVOlution Volume 2 Issue 3 is out!
The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available for you to download from:
http://www.sigevolution.org
The issue features:
GA @ The World Solar Challenge by Vincent de Geus & the Nuon Solar Team
Buildable Evolution by Pablo José Funes
What Is a Classifier System? Stewart W. Wilson
Dissertation Corner
New Issues of Journals
Calls and Calendar
The newsletter is intended to be viewed electronically.
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Posted by Pier Luca Lanzi on April 9th, 2008 under Genetic algorithms
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Linkage in Evolutionary Computation @ CEC2009
There will be a special session on linkage learning in evolutionary computation during CEC2009, more information is available here.
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Posted by Pier Luca Lanzi on April 8th, 2008 under Genetic algorithms
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Movie contracts simplified using GAs
Researchers at Syracuse University have used genetic algorithms and game theory to show that simpler movie contracts are superior to more complex arrangements. See the article at Newsblaze here.
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Posted by David E. Goldberg on April 6th, 2008 under Genetic algorithms
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Antarctic researcher claims billion variable precedence
The Genetic Argonaut has a piece on an Antarctic researcher who claims precedence on solving billion variable problems over IlliGAL. Professor Pangloss Van Thunder-ten-Tronckh claims precedent on many other innovations in genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation as well. Read the full story here.
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Posted by David E. Goldberg on April 1st, 2008 under Genetic algorithms
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Free Book: A Field Guide to Genetic Programming
The pdf of the book “A FIELD GUIDE TO GENETIC PROGRAMMING” by Riccardo Poli, William B. Langdon, Nicholas F. McPhee (with contributions from John R. Koza) is freely available at www.gp-field-guide.org.uk
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Posted by Pier Luca Lanzi on March 31st, 2008 under Genetic algorithms
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WPE-2008 website update
The Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering has updated its website for 2008 here.
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Posted by David E. Goldberg on March 2nd, 2008 under Genetic algorithms
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A course for GA fans
All you genetic algorithmists who need a little touch up on your biological background, have I got the course for you, and it’s on sale right now. Stephen Nowicki’s, Biology: […]
Posted by David E. Goldberg on March 2nd, 2008 under illigal blog, Genetic algorithms
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ACM TechNews Links an Article about GAs
In the last ACM TechNews I found a link to an article about GAs, titled “Virtual Evolution Breeds Answers”, I was glad to see such a topic in an ACM bulletin, until I read the article. Some of the comments seem to come out from the 1980’s, as for instance “[GAs] are quite slow, and […]
Posted by Pier Luca Lanzi on February 22nd, 2008 under Genetic algorithms
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Better-than-human AI by 2029
Yeah right.
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Posted by David E. Goldberg on February 17th, 2008 under Genetic algorithms
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