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	<title>Kumara Sastry</title>
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	<description>Member, Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory</description>
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		<title>Moved to my new webpage: www.kumarasastry.com</title>
		<description>I moved my homepage over to www.kumarasastry.com. I was planning this move for sometime now and finally did it.  </description>
		<link>http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/kumara/2007/07/21/moved-to-my-new-webpage-wwwkumarasastrycom/</link>
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		<title>1000 films to watch before you die</title>
		<description>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. ...</description>
		<link>http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/kumara/2007/07/15/1000-films-to-watch-before-you-die/</link>
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		<title>GECCO-2007@London photos</title>
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See the slideshow at Flickr.com
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		<link>http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/kumara/2007/07/14/gecco-2007london-photos/</link>
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		<title>Towards billion bit optimization via parallel estimation of distribution algorithm</title>
		<description>Sastry, K., Goldberg, D. E., Llor&#224;, X. (2007). Proceedings of the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007). 577&#8211;584. [Best paper in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms track] [Preprint: IlliGAL report no. 2007007] [Full paper - DOI] [Presentation Slides].

[slideshare 77764 towards-billion-bit-optimization-via-parallel-estimation-of-distribution-algorithm1292]

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		<link>http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/kumara/2007/07/14/towards-billion-bit-optimization-via-parallel-estimation-of-distribution-algorithm/</link>
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		<title>Empirical Analysis of ideal recombination on random decomposable problems</title>
		<description>Sastry, K., Pelikan, M., Goldberg, D. E. (2007). Proceedings of the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007). 1388&#8211;1395. [Nominated for best paper in Genetic Algorithms track] [Preprint: IlliGAL report no. 2006016] [Full paper - DOI] [Presentation slides].

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		<link>http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/kumara/2007/07/14/empirical-analysis-of-ideal-recombination-on-random-decomposable-problems/</link>
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		<title>Automated alphabet reduction method with evolutionary algorithms for protein structure prediction</title>
		<description>Bacardit, J., Stout, M., Hirst, J. D., Sastry, K., Llor&#224;, X., Krasnogor, N. (2007). Proceedings of the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007). 346&#8211;353. [Bronze ``Humies'' award at the Human Competitive Results Competition] [Preprint: IlliGAL report no. 2007015] [Full paper - DOI]. </description>
		<link>http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/kumara/2007/07/14/automated-alphabet-reduction-method-with-evolutionary-algorithms-for-protein-structure-prediction/</link>
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		<title>Population sizing for entropy-based model building in genetic algorithms</title>
		<description>Yu, T.-L., Sastry, K., Goldberg, D. E., Pelikan, M. (2007). Proceedings of the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007). 601&#8211;608. [Nominated for the best paper award in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms track] [Preprint: IlliGAL report no. 2006020] [Full paper - DOI] [Presentation slides].

[slideshare 77752 population-sizing-for-entropybased-model-buliding-in-genetic-algorithms2125] </description>
		<link>http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/kumara/2007/07/14/population-sizing-for-entropy-based-model-building-in-genetic-algorithms-2/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s get ready to rumble redux: Crossover versus mutation head to head on exponentially scaled problems</title>
		<description>Sastry, K., Goldberg, D. E. (2007). Proceedings of the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007). 1380&#8211;1387. [Preprint: IlliGAL report no. 2007005] [Full paper - DOI] [Presentation slides].

[slideshare 77662 lets-get-ready-to-rumble-redux-crossover-versus-mutation-head-to-head-on-exponentially-scaled-problems1687] </description>
		<link>http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/kumara/2007/07/13/lets-get-ready-to-rumble-redux-crossover-versus-mutation-head-to-head-on-exponentially-scaled-problems-2/</link>
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		<title>Modeling selection pressure in XCS for proportionate and tournament selection</title>
		<description>Orriols-Puig, A., Sastry, K., Lanzi, P. L., Goldberg, D. E., Bernad&#243;-Mansilla, E. (2007). Proceedings of the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007). 1846&#8211;1853. [Preprint: IlliGAL report no. 2007004] [Full paper - DOI] [Presentation slides].

[slideshare 77652 modeling-selection-pressure-in-xcs-for-proportionate-and-tournament-selection355] </description>
		<link>http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/kumara/2007/07/13/modeling-selection-pressure-in-xcs-for-proportionate-and-tournament-selection-2/</link>
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		<title>Do not match, Inherit: Fitness surrogates for genetics-based machine learning techniques</title>
		<description>Llor&#224;, X., Sastry, K., Yu, T.-L., Goldberg, D. E. (2007). Proceedings of the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007). 1798&#8211;1805. [Preprint: IlliGAL report no. 2007011] [Full paper - DOI] [Presentation slides].

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		<link>http://www.illigal.uiuc.edu/web/kumara/2007/07/13/do-not-match-inherit-fitness-surrogates-for-genetics-based-machine-learning-techniques-2/</link>
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