NCCS / EC lab kick-off meeting

15.January.2010
3:00 pm	to	4:30 pm

The first NCCS / EC lab meeting for Spring semester will be in HEC 356 tomorrow (Friday, Jan 15) at 3pm

Cataglyphis: Ants with sundials and pedometers?

A student in my machine learning class  and Dr. Wu’s complex systems class sent me this link.  I thought it was worth sharing for the lab.

FOGA 2011 information announced

The Eleventh Foundations of Genetic Algorithms will be held Wed.5.Jan-Sun.9.Jan 2011 in Schwarzenberg, Austria.  Hans-Georg Beyer and Bill Langdon are the chairs, so it should be an excellent event.  Submission is double-blind, and are due mid-Summer (5.July.2010).

Randomized algorithm analysis in EC lecture

13.November.2009
10:00 am	to	11:30 am
20.November.2009
10:00 am	to	11:30 am

Pawel Wocjan has generously donated two Friday’s of his new Algorithms & Theory Group meetings to me to discuss randomized algorithm analysis in evolutionary computation.   The group meets Fridays from 10a-11:30a in HEC 102.  I lecture tomorrow and next Friday (13.Nov & 20.Nov).  Topics list after the cut …

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15 Real-World Applications of EC

A friend recently posted about the following website:

http://brainz.org/15-real-world-applications-genetic-algorithms/

The site mixes the hypothetical and existing technologies, though sometimes makes some dubious claims.  Still, it’s a fun and short read.

Paper deadlines approach

Reminder:  AAAI papers are due 1.Dec and GECCO papers are due 13.Jan.  Pregolia is apparently temporarily down while they shift servers.

Dr. Wocjan organizes Fri Alg. & Theory meetings

Dr. Wocjan in EECS is organizing a weekly meeting on Algorithms & Theory on Fridays from 10a-11:30a in HEC102.  The goal is to gather those interested in algorithms & complexity theory.  The first, upcoming talk this Friday by Dr. Wocjan himself is on Game Tree Evaluation and Yao’s MinMax Theorem.

Those of you with interests in theory should seriously consider attending.

Beware the gauntlet: Upcoming conference submission deadlines

I sometimes refer to the mid-Fall through Winter time frame as “The Gauntlet” since most of the major conferences that people in the NCCS and EC labs care about have submission deadlines that fall in that range.  I use Pregolia to keep up with conferences (look at the left side-bar) but since we are currently squaring off to run The Gauntlet, I figured it would be useful to write a specific post reminding people.  Upcoming info after the cut.

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Semester schedule

I’m very late this semester in getting material about the semester on-line, but better late than never.  This semester the NCCS and EC labs hold their joint meetings in HEC 346 on Fridays at 3p.  Here is the semester schedule so far:

• 11.Sep, Sean
• 18.Sep, Adam (canceled)
  
• 25.Sep, Chris E.
• 2.Oct, Ramya (rescheduled)
  
• 9.Oct, Chris H.
• 16.Oct, Adam
• 23.Oct, Ramya
• 30.Oct, Gautham
• 6.Nov, Chris E.
• 13.Nov, Adam
• 20.Nov, Sean
• 4.Dec, Chris H.

We still need to fill the open slots …

New free book on Metaheuristics

Sean Luke at George Mason University has recently put out a new book:  Essentials of Metaheuristics.  This is a great book, and it is available as free open text at:  http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/metaheuristics .  More after the cut.

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