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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 [...]

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:
Initial-Population Bias in the Univariate Estimation of Distribution Algorithm
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Performance of Evolutionary Algorithms on NK Landscapes with Nearest Neighbor Interactions and Tunable Overlap
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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 [...]

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.

I just found out that Hans-Paul Schwefel, one of the evolutionary computation pioneers, is going to give a talk at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2009) in Montreal, Canada (July 8-12, 2009). The talk will be part of the Learning from Failures in Evolutionary Computation (LFFEC) Workshop.
The title of the talk is failures [...]

Marcelo De Brito of Genetic Argonaut reports on the genetic algorithm implementation of a genetic algorithm on a Playstation PSP. The implementation is called Pyevolve. More can be found here.

According to the estimated impact factor, GECCO (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference) ranks 11th in computer science conferences on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and human-computer interaction. The source: http://www.cs-conference-ranking.org/conferencerankings/topicsii.html.

GECCO-2009 deadline for submission of regular papers was extended to Wednesday, January 28, 2009!

Marcelo De Brito of Genetic Argonaut pointed out an interesting article published by wired.com on top national security challenges for the next president.
One of these challenges is the use of genetic algorithms for battlefield operations. This reminded me of the project FOX-GA, which was one of the projects I’ve learned about while I was [...]