http://medal.cs.umsl.edu/blog On estimation of distribution algorithms, evolutionary computation, and machine learning Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:48:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://medal.cs.umsl.edu/blog/?p=392 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 ... http://medal.cs.umsl.edu/blog/?p=388 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 AlgorithmView more documents from pelikan. Performance of Evolutionary Algorithms on NK Landscapes with Nearest Neighbor Interactions and Tunable ... http://medal.cs.umsl.edu/blog/?p=386 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. http://medal.cs.umsl.edu/blog/?p=383 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 ... http://medal.cs.umsl.edu/blog/?p=365 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. http://medal.cs.umsl.edu/blog/?p=363 TiME student Nick Barbuto interviews author David Goldberg about his book Entreprenurial Engineer: The talk is NOT about genetic algorithms :-) http://medal.cs.umsl.edu/blog/?p=359 Later today Uday Chakraborty is giving a talk on flow-shop scheduling as part of the weekly colloquium series at our department. The talk will be given at 4:00pm in room 320 CCB at UMSL. The abstract follows: The flow shop scheduling problem, or the problem of assignment of times to a ... http://medal.cs.umsl.edu/blog/?p=357 [caption id="attachment_355" align="alignleft" width="100"][/caption] 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) ... http://medal.cs.umsl.edu/blog/?p=352 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. http://medal.cs.umsl.edu/blog/?p=347