Today I gave a presentation for the ALG group in NCSA about metadata stores and how they can be used in D2K. The presentation has two parts. The first one covers and introduction to metadata in general with some examples. The second one, is about how to wrap a metadata store (Kowari, see the previous post here) and make it accessible in D2K. You can find the slides here.
by Xavier Llorà (2006). IlliGAL TR No 2006017. Link to the PDF. Link to the Java code Abstract This technical report describes how to compute the fitness of a rule for an arbitrary size multiplexer without doing any instance matching. Pittsburgh-style learning classifier systems require the accuracy and the error of a rule to compute a fitness that promotes maximally accurate and maximally general rules. The accuracy (α) may be computed as the proportion of overall examples correctly classified, and the error (ε) is the proportion of incorrect classifications issued....
José Agustín Goytisolo wrote a powerful poem named “Palabras para Julia”. The poem can be found here. Below, the song by Paco Ibáñez sings José’s poem. The mp3 is provided by www.poesia-inter.net.
Sunday night. The first tornado warning of the season is over in Champaign-Urbana. This one came pretty close. The tornado did not hit the town but strong winds touched ground and caused damages. When the tornado alarm went off I was watching “The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition”. I was deep into the movie and it took me a little while to realize that it wasn’t a whaler blowing the horn....
Yes, today was the deadline for the Ninth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature. Submit your paper here. The deadline has been extended till April, 5th.