MEDAL Blogging

Just a while ago I checked my mail and found a copy of a new book Parameter Setting in Evolutionary Algorithms edited by Fernando Lobo, Claudio F. Lima, and Zbigniew Michalewicz. The book looks great and I think that everyone who works in evolutionary computation should read it.
Here’s short info on the book from [...]

Mark Hauschild will give a talk today on analyzing probabilistic models in the hierarchical BOA on traps and spin glasses:

The hierarchical Bayesian optimization algorithm (hBOA) can solve nearly decomposable and hierarchical problems of bounded difficulty in a robust and scalable manner by building and sampling probabilistic models of promising solutions. This paper analyzes probabilistic models [...]

Treehugger published an article Wave Power gets Smarter on using a genetic algorithm to improve the efficiency of a wave-powered generator:

Computer scientists at the University of Edinburgh are using clever software to improve the efficiency of a wave-powered generator … When the speed and frequency of the waves changes, the machine doesn’t adapt particularly well, [...]

Since I started to work in academia, I had to count my citations about a million times or so (well, it felt like that at least). Most of the time I used the Science Citation Index (via Web of Science). However, recently I downloaded a piece of software Publish or Perish, which I found useful [...]

Richard Stallman—a well known software developper and free software activist—will come to our university to give a talk The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System on April 23, 2007:

The goals of the Free Software Movement will be discussed. This will include the movement’s ultimate aspiration of total cyberspace liberation. The philosophy of the [...]

Today, Daniel R. Tauritz will visit our department to present his talk Real-world adversarial game-theoretic problem solving employing competitive coevolutionary armsraces: Critical infrastructure protection & automated software engineering:

There are many important real-world problems which are of a game-theoretic nature. In game-theoretic problems multiple agents try to optimize their own utility functions which are dependent on [...]