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On estimation of distribution algorithms, evolutionary computation, and machine learning
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The submission deadline for GECCO-2010 regular papers is January 27, 2010, which is just 1 week away from today!
The GECCO-2010 deadline for submission of regular papers has been extended to January 27, 2010!
The paper submission deadline for my favorite conference is getting close, it’s just a bit over a month away. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2010 (GECCO-2010) will take place in Portland, OR (July 7-11, 2010) and the deadline for submitting full papers to GECCO-2010 is January 13, 2010. Mark your calendars, write a paper, submit it, and get ready for a great event!
The topics include genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, real-world applications, learning classifier systems and other genetics-based machine learning, evolvable hardware, artificial life, adaptive behavior, ant colony optimization, swarm intelligence, biological applications, evolutionary robotics, coevolution, artificial immune systems, and more.
The web page of GECCO-2010 can be found here. Check out the web page for details on paper submission, venue and planned events. See you in Portland!
A new book Essentials of Metaheuristics by Sean Luke is available online. The book can be downloaded for free on its web site. Information about the book from the author’s web site:
This is an open set of lecture notes on metaheuristics algorithms, intended for undergraduate students, practitioners, programmers, and other non-experts. It was developed as a series of lecture notes for an undergraduate course I taught at GMU. The chapters are designed to be printable separately if necessary. As it’s lecture notes, the topics are short and light on examples and theory. It’s best when complementing other texts. With time, I might remedy this.
At the SIGEVO Meeting at GECCO-2009, the GECCO-99 paper introducing the Bayesian optimization algorithm (BOA) was one of the two papers that received GECCO Impact Award. This is a new award and it focuses on past GECCO papers that have made most impact and have had most citations. The paper was in fact a project from David Goldberg’s class Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning (GE-485) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The two awarded papers were:
I just put the slides from my GECCO-2009 presentations online both on the MEDAL Publications page and on the slideshare.net. The slideshare.net versions are embedded below:
The new issue of SIGEVOlution is now available for you to download from http://www.sigevolution.org. For me, the main highlight of the issue is the interview with John H. Holland with an introduction by Lashon Booker.
John H. Holland will give a keynote speech at GECCO-2009 on July 12, 2009 (Sunday), 10:40am-11:40am. The talk is entitled Genetic Algorithms: Long Ago [Past] and Far Away [Future] and the abstract of the talk follows:
It was in the mid-50’s of the 20th century when I realized that Fisher’s fundamental theorem could be extended from individual alleles to co-adapted sets of alleles, without linearization. That led to a realization that recombination, rather than mutation, was the main mechanism providing grist for the natural selection mill. There was little theory concerning recombination in those days, but now recombination is a standard explanation for biological innovations, such as swine flu.
Much later, in the early 1990’s, GA’s provided the “adaptive” part of rule-based models of complex adaptive systems (CAS), such as the artificial stock market pioneered at the Santa Fe Institute. Tag-based signal processing occurs in systems as different as biological cells, language acquisition, and ecosystems. CAS models offer a unified way to study the on-going co-evolution of boundary and tag networks in these systems.
Another keynote speaker at GECCO-2009 is Demetri Terzopoulos, who will give the talk Artificial Life Simulation of Humans and Lower Animals: From Biomechanics to Intelligence on July 11 (Saturday) at 4.10pm-5.50pm. As if this wasn’t enough, GECCO-2009 will also feature an invited talk of Hans-Paul Schwefel at the Learning from Failures in Evolutionary Computation (LFFEC) Workshop, which is entitled Failures as stepping stones to success or per aspera ad astra.
More details can be found on GECCO-2009 webpage.
Pier Luca Lanzi just posted a few video highlights from the Simulated Car Racing Competition at CEC-2009. The winner of the competition was Thies Lonneker and Martin Butz. Congratulations!
Here’s one of the posted videos:
See also Pier Luca’s post at IlliGAL Blogging.
TiME student Nick Barbuto interviews author David Goldberg about his book Entreprenurial Engineer:
The talk is NOT about genetic algorithms :-)
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