Optimization by Building and Using Probabilistic Models

Here is the schedule for OBUPM workshop:
Date and Time: Saturday, July 7, 2007. 13:50–18:00. Roberts G06 Sir Ambrose Fleming LT
13:50-13:55 Introduction — Kumara Sastry and Martin Pelikan
13:55-14:30 Reflections of a Keen Modeler — David E. Goldberg
14:30-15:00 Diversity Loss in EDAs — Jonathan Shapiro
15:00-15:25 Structural Accuracy of Probabilistic Models in BOA — Claudio Lima
15:25-15:50 A Simple Real-Coded Extended Compact Genetic […]

It is a great pleasure to invite you to attend OBUPM workshop, held at GECCO in the afternoon session on July 7, which will include invited talks from some of the distinguished researchers and renowned speakers who will provide current state of the art as well as future research directions of probabilistic model-building genetic algorithms:
David […]

The workshop will feature a series of selected presentations. To submit your contribution, send your ACM-formatted paper in Postscript or PDF by e-mail to Kumara Sastry at ksastry@uiuc.edu. Papers should not exceed the limit of 8 pages and must meet with deadline of the workshop (see important dates for details). In case you difficulties with […]