Genetic Algorithms

A year ago, I mentioned that I always write a cGA implementation when I learn a new language. Then, I was trying to get back to fluent in Haskell. A couple of days ago, Martin Pelikan just did the same and wanted to compare implementations. So, what did I do? I looked for my implementation to post it here. I took a look at the code and change a couple of things, but I can say that the Haskell implementation is the shortest working implementation that I have ever written in any language....

Back in Fall 2006 I was lucky to be at the right place, at the right time. Kumara Sastry and David E. Goldberg were working to pulverize some preconceptions about how far you could scale genetic algorithms. As I said, I was lucky I could help the best I could. It turned out that the answer was pretty simple, as far as you want. The key to that result was, again, built on Georges Harik’s compact genetic algorithm....

Wanna have some Sunday afternoon fun? Just refresh your Erlang skills. Since this is me having fun, what better way to do so than to write yet another implementation of the compact Genetic Algorithm originally (cGA) proposed by Georges Harik? I am going to skip describing the original algorithm and focus a bit on how to implement it in Erlang instead. You can find some nice books elsewhere and more information on the Erlang site....

Is that time of year. Rushing to get your papers ready for GECCO 2012? Here are some good news. The deadline has been pushed back to January 27 to help those last minute pushes :). You can find more infomaion at the conference website http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2012/ or you can follow GECCO 2012 updatse on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/gecco_2012), Google+ (+GECCO http://goo.gl/F4ZTM), or Facebook (http://goo.gl/IqEbW).

I just got a note from Pier Luca Lanzi about some raw number on this year’s GECCO 2011 conference. The numbers are stagering. I will start with the numbers from the previous editions since GECCO become an ACM conference, just to build up suspense. The numbers of paper submissions to the main conference for the previous editions are listed below. Year Submissions 2006 446 2007 577 2008 451 2009 531 2010 373 And after this prelude, here comes the number of submission for this year: 686....