MEDAL Blogging

The code of meta-optimizing semantic evolutionary search (MOSES)—developed by Moshe Looks—has been uploaded on its project’s web page at http://code.google.com/p/moses/. The code will be further developed by Novamente LLC.

Since on slideshare.net there are already many presentations related to estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs), I started a group for EDA presentations there. The group can be found here. Feel free to join and please contribute.

Last night I put up one of Claudio Lima’s presentation on using substructural local search for efficiency enhancement in BOA on slideshare.net to complement other related presentations already available there. The presentation has been available as a PDF for some time here. The plugin follows:

Kumara Sastry’s thesis entitled Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming for Multiscale Modeling: Applications in Materials Science and Chemistry and Advances in Scalability is now available online. Click here to download the PDF.
Kumara has done a great job and his thesis should be of interest to both researchers as well as practitioners, and not only [...]

I just came back from Kumara’s Ph.D. defense where he presented his 4-in-1 thesis Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming for Multiscale Modeling: Applications in Materials Science and Chemistry and Advances in Scalability. Congratulations, Kumara!
Update (09/14/2007): Here’re the slides from the presentation from slideshare.net:

Fernando Lobo made a nice post on IlliGAL Blogging about the paper The Equilibrium Genetic Algorithm and the Role of Crossover written by Ari Juels, who is now a chief scientist and director of RSA Laboratories.
The paper can be downloaded here. Fernando’s post can be found here.