Kumara Sastry

Moved to my new webpage: www.kumarasastry.com

Kumara Sastry — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:56:30 +0000

I moved my homepage over to www.kumarasastry.com. I was planning this move for sometime now and finally did it.

1000 films to watch before you die

Kumara Sastry — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:30:47 +0000

Found this guardian article via meish.org. Here is my breakdown (yes working on your thesis makes you spend time on such silly things), and I was surprised to see that I’ve only watched 301 out of the 1000 movies, but frankly most of them don’t seem to be any good. For example, Ace ventura is one of the 1000 movies!

A: 13 out of 54	B: 24 out of 95	C: 15 out of 61	D: 20 out of 64
E: 8 out of 25	F: 11 out of 36	G: 18 out of 47	H: 5 out of 45
I: 8 out of 30	J: 6 out of 14	K: 7 out of 22	L: 16 out of 50
M: 27 out of 71	N: 4 out of 24	O: 11 out of 28	P: 19 out of 46
Q: 1 out of 2	R: 16 out of 42	S: 32 out of 101	T: 24 out of 67
U: 3 out of 9	V: 1 out of 12	W: 7 out of 35	X: 1 out of 2
Y: 2 out of 8	Z: 2 out of 6

Update: The sum doesn’t add up to 1000, I am missing 4 movies somewhere.

GECCO-2007@London photos

Kumara Sastry — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:34:09 +0000

See the slideshow at Flickr.com

Towards billion bit optimization via parallel estimation of distribution algorithm

Kumara Sastry — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:49:00 +0000

Sastry, K., Goldberg, D. E., Llorà, X. (2007). Proceedings of the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007). 577–584. [Best paper in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms track] [Preprint: IlliGAL report no. 2007007] [Full paper - DOI] [Presentation Slides].

Empirical Analysis of ideal recombination on random decomposable problems

Kumara Sastry — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:36:06 +0000

Sastry, K., Pelikan, M., Goldberg, D. E. (2007). Proceedings of the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007). 1388–1395. [Nominated for best paper in Genetic Algorithms track] [Preprint: IlliGAL report no. 2006016] [Full paper - DOI] [Presentation slides].

Automated alphabet reduction method with evolutionary algorithms for protein structure prediction

Kumara Sastry — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:24:26 +0000

Bacardit, J., Stout, M., Hirst, J. D., Sastry, K., Llorà, X., Krasnogor, N. (2007). Proceedings of the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007). 346–353. [Bronze “Humies” award at the Human Competitive Results Competition] [Preprint: IlliGAL report no. 2007015] [Full paper - DOI].

Population sizing for entropy-based model building in genetic algorithms

Kumara Sastry — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:15:10 +0000

Yu, T.-L., Sastry, K., Goldberg, D. E., Pelikan, M. (2007). Proceedings of the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007). 601–608. [Nominated for the best paper award in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms track] [Preprint: IlliGAL report no. 2006020] [Full paper - DOI] [Presentation slides].

Let’s get ready to rumble redux: Crossover versus mutation head to head on exponentially scaled problems

Kumara Sastry — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:06:50 +0000

Sastry, K., Goldberg, D. E. (2007). Proceedings of the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007). 1380–1387. [Preprint: IlliGAL report no. 2007005] [Full paper - DOI] [Presentation slides].

Modeling selection pressure in XCS for proportionate and tournament selection

Kumara Sastry — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:15:34 +0000

Orriols-Puig, A., Sastry, K., Lanzi, P. L., Goldberg, D. E., Bernadó-Mansilla, E. (2007). Proceedings of the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007). 1846–1853. [Preprint: IlliGAL report no. 2007004] [Full paper - DOI] [Presentation slides].

Do not match, Inherit: Fitness surrogates for genetics-based machine learning techniques

Kumara Sastry — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:59:55 +0000

Llorà, X., Sastry, K., Yu, T.-L., Goldberg, D. E. (2007). Proceedings of the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007). 1798–1805. [Preprint: IlliGAL report no. 2007011] [Full paper - DOI] [Presentation slides].