Research

The deadline for the next Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2008) is approaching. Januray 16, 2008 is the date. Get ready!

Jena 2 Inference Support is a nice introduction to the inference engines provided by the Jena package. Besides standardized reasoning for RDF and a subset of OWL/Lite and OWL/All ontologies, it also provides the mechanisms for creating your own rule-based inference engine using the generic rule-based inference also provided.

This is an excerpt from Alwyn Barry’s web page (Thanks Pier Luca for pointing it out) Most people who know me will be aware that I am changing job shortly. I will be leaving the University of Bath from 30th September 2007, and will no longer be an academic. I am moving to Street in Somerset to become the Pastor of Street Baptist Church. I am still happy to answer any questions relating to my previous research, so do feel free to contact me via my new email address, which is linked from this site. ...

Kumara has just defended his Ph.D. thesis “Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming for Multiscale Modeling: Applications in Materials Science and Chemistry and Advances in Scalability”. The gallery above shows snapshots of Kumara in action. If you have not taken a look at his excellent work, put it on your todo list, you will not regret it. Congratulations!

I am sitting at the workshop on the Engineer of the Future hosted at NCSA. The workshop is part of the ETSI lecture series organized by Michael Loui and David E. Goldberg. The talks so far are very interesting. Hard to highlight all the relevant points, but I would like to mention the experience Sherra E. Kerns is sharing about their experience at Olin College. The engagement with the curriculum that students show is very remarkable. She mentioned current established curricula tend to kill innovation (and engagement). That comment resonate with my personal experience freshmen was always more rewarding and challenging than last year students. ...