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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 [...]

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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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 [...]

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 [...]

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

It’s now less than a month until the deadline for paper submission for GECCO-2009, which will be the first GECCO conference in Canada. The conference will take place in Montreal, Canada on July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Sunday). The deadline for submitting papers to GECCO-2009 is January 14, 2009. The general chair of GECCO-2009 is Franz Rothlauf.
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Pier Luca Lanzi created a couple of great banners of different sizes to advertise the 2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2009), sponsored by ACM SIGEVO. Feel free to use these banners on your blog or web page to advertise the next year’s GECCO conference. Please use the provided HTML code to include the banners, [...]

Pier Luca Lanzi put up his cool video advertising GECCO-2009 Competitions on youtube. GECCO-2009 will take place in Montreal, Canada, on July 8-12, 2009. Check the video out below:

GECCO-2009 will be the first GECCO conference in Canada. The conference will take place in Montreal, Canada on July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday-Sunday). The deadline for submitting papers to GECCO-2009 is January 14, 2009. The general chair of GECCO-2009 is Franz Rothlauf.
For more details, check out GECCO-2009 web site. Download the PDF of the GECCO-2009 Call [...]