MEDAL Blogging

I just put my estimation of distribution algorithms tutorial slides (usually presented at GECCO) on slideshare.net, check them out:

I also put some other GECCO-2007 presentations online:

Most MEDAL presentations can also be downloaded here.

Kumara Sastry has also put up his GECCO-2007 presentations on slideshare.net, check them out:

Dave Goldberg put up his slides from the OBUPM-2007 workshop at GECCO-2007 on slideshare.net. This was one of my favorite presentations of the conference. Here it goes:

The source code of meta-optimizing semantic evolutionary search (MOSES) proposed by Moshe Looks in his thesis Competent Program Evolution in 2006 is now available online at http://code.google.com/p/moses/. Check it out! For more information about Moshe’s work, visit his web page at http://metacog.org/.
Update: The code is not yet online although the project’s page is already up, [...]

A new journal called Advances in Artificial Intelligence has just been launched at Hindawi Publishing Corporation. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Robotics
Soft computing theory and applications
Evolutionary inspired computing
Pervasive computing and ambient intelligence
Intelligent Web
Bioinformatics
Neuroinformatics
Computing and the mind
Cognitive science
Non-classical computing and novel computing models
DNA computing and quantum computing
Natural computing
Philosophy and AI
Foundations of AI

Advances in [...]

The schedule of the GECCO-2007 workshop Optimization by Building and Using Probabilistic Models (OBUPM-2007) is now ready:
Date and time: Saturday, July 7, 2007. 13:50-18:00. Roberts G06 Sir Ambrose Fleming LT
13:50-13:55
Introduction
Kumara Sastry and Martin Pelikan
13:55-14:30
Reflections of a Keen Modeler
David E. Goldberg
14:30-15:00
Diversity Loss in EDAs
Jonathan Shapiro
15:00-15:25
Structural Accuracy of Probabilistic Models in BOA
Claudio Lima
15:25-15:50
A Simple Real-Coded Extended Compact [...]

XCSFJava 1.1 code authored by Martin V. Butz was posted online and its documentation was posted as MEDAL Report No. 2007008. Click here to access MEDAL software, or here to access MEDAL reports.