The call for workshop proposals for GECCO 2011 is out. The GECCO-2011 program committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the 2011 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2011) in Dublin, Ireland, July 12-16. The deadline for proposals is November 8th. More info at is available at the online call for workshop proposals document.
“Parallel and Distributed Computational Intelligence” edited by Francisco Fernández de Vega & Erick Cantú-Paz and published by Springer is out for pre-order. The first chapter “When Huge is Routine: Scaling Genetic Algorithms and Estimation of Distribution Algorithms via Data-Intensive Computing” of the book was written together with coauthors Abhishek Verma, Roy Campbell, and David E. Goldberg describing how data-intensive computing can help push the size of problems that GAs and EDAs can address. You may find the abstact of the book below. ...
A lot of water under the bridge has gone by since the first release of Meandre 1.4.X series. In January I went back to the drawing board and start sketching what was going to be 1.5.X series. The slide deck embedded above is a extended list of the thoughts during the process. As usual, I started collecting feedback from people using 1.4.X in production, things that worked, things that needed improvement, things that were just plain over complicated. The hot recurrent topics that people using 1.4.X could be mainly summarized as: ...
I just got an email from Martin Butz about a discussion session being planned for IWLCS 2010 and his request to pass it along. Hope all is well and you are going to attend GECCO this year. Regardless if you attend or not: Jaume asked me to lead a discussion session on “LCS representations, operators, and scalability – what is next?” … or similar during IWLCS… Basically everything besides datamining, because there will be another session on that topic. So, I am sure you all have some issues in mind that you think should be tackled / addressed / discussed at the workshop and in the near future. Thus, I would be very happy to receive a few suggestions from your side – anything is welcome – I will then compile the points raised in a few slides to try and get the discussion going at the workshop. Thank you for any feedback you can provide. Looking forward to seeing you soon! Martin P.S.: Please feel free to also forward this message or tell me, if you think this Email should be still sent to other people… —- PD Dr. Martin V. Butz <butz@psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de> Department of Psychology III (Cognitive Psychology) Roentgenring 11 97070 Wuerzburg, Germany http://www.coboslab.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/people/martin_v_butz/ http://www.coboslab.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de Phone: +49 (0)931 31 82808 Fax: +49 (0)931 31 82815 ...
Ryan Urbanowicz has released Python versions of GAssits and GALE!!! Yup, so excited to see a new incarnation of GALE doing the rounds. I cannot wait to get my hands on it. Ryan has also done an excellent job porting UCS, XCS, and MCS to Python and making those implementations available via “LCS & GBML central” for people to use. I think Ryan’s efforts deserve recognition. His code is helping others to have an easier entry to the LCS and GBML. More information about Ryan’s implementations can found below ...