MEDAL Blogging

The first issue of the new journal Evolutionary Intelligence (Springer) was published. The editor-in-chief of EIJ is Larry Bull. The journal will be freely accessible online for the next 3 months.

International Science Grid This Week published an article on using genetic algorithms to optimize grid scheduling. The proposed GA approach was called DIOGENES. The picture courtesy of the National University of Singapore.

I have recently been working on a few modules for Evolution to Knowledge(E2K) and after talking with one of their researchers was told they are working on another project now, Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research (SEASR). Unlike Data To Knowledge(D2K) and E2K, SEARS will be fully open source. I [...]

On Intelligent Machines I read a post on Feng Gui, which simulates how humans focus their attention on a picture or a web page and creates an “attention heatmap”.
Here’s an example attention heatmap generated for MEDAL Web Page:

hBOA web page has been recently transfered to MEDAL, it’s current location is http://medal.cs.umsl.edu/hboa/. The page should now be fully functional.