FOGA XI CFP

The 11th Foundations of Genetic Algorithms conference will be held on January 5-9, 2011 in Schwarzenberg, Austria. Submissions (10-12 pages) on the theoretical foundations of any type of evolutionary computation can be emailed to foga@fhv.at. The deadline for submissions is July 5, 2010. For more details see http://www.sigevo.org/foga-2011.

GPEM 11(1) now available online

The first issue of volume 11 of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines is now available online, with the following articles:

"Editorial Introduction" and "Acknowledgments" by Lee Spector

"The influence of mutation on population dynamics in multiobjective genetic programming"

by Khaled Badran & Peter I. Rockett

"Automated synthesis of resilient and tamper-evident analog circuits without a single point of failure"

by Vyung-Joong Kim, Adrian Wong & Hod Lipson

"GP challenge: evolving energy function for protein structure prediction" by Pawel Widera, Jonathan M. Garibaldi & Natalio Krasnogor

"The identification and exploitation of dormancy in genetic programming" by David Jackson

"Book Review: Michael Affenzeller, Stefan Wagner, Stephan Winkler and Andreas Beham: Genetic algorithms and genetic programming modern concepts and practical applications" by Gisele L. Pappa

"Book Review: Melanie Mitchell: Complexity a guided tour"

by Felix Streichert

SIGEVOlution Volume 4, Issue 2, is now available

The new issue of the SIGEVOlution newsletter, Volume 4 Issue 2, is now available for you to download from: http://www.sigevolution.org

The new issue features:

• 45 Years of Evolution Strategies: Hans-Paul Schwefel Interviewed for the Genetic Argonaut Blog
• CIG-2009
• Dissertation Corner
• Calls & calendar

The newsletter is intended to be viewed electronically.

Thanks to Pier Luca Lanzi, SIGEvolution Editor-in-Chief.

GECCO-2010 deadline extended

The submission deadline for the 2010 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010) has been extended to January 27, 2010. See the conference web site for more details.

Bacteria that turn gears

An interesting inversion of several of the themes covered in this journal:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091226/sc_livescience/scientistsharnessbacteriatoturnmicroscopicgears

It would be even more interesting if gear-turning performance drove selection...

-Lee

SIGEVOlution Volume 4, Issue 1, is now available

The new issue of the SIGEVOlution newsletter, Volume 4 Issue 1, is now available for you to download from: http://www.sigevolution.org

The new issue features:

• "Computational Intelligence Marketing" by Arthur Kordon
• "Pyevolve: a Python Open-Source Framework for Genetic Algorithms" by Christian S. Perone
• Calls & calendar

The newsletter is intended to be viewed electronically.

Thanks to Pier Luca Lanzi, SIGEvolution Editor-in-Chief.

GPEM 10(4) now available online

The fourth issue of volume 10 of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines is now available online. This is the first part of the two-part Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms, and it contains the following articles:

Introduction: special issue on parallel and distributed evolutionary algorithms, part I

by Marco Tomassini & Leonardo Vanneschi

Distributed differential evolution with explorative–exploitative population families

by Matthieu Weber, Ferrante Neri & Ville Tirronen

A grid-enabled asynchronous metamodel-assisted evolutionary algorithm for aerodynamic optimization

by V. G. Asouti, I. C. Kampolis & K. C. Giannakoglou

Hybrid of genetic algorithm and local search to solve MAX-SAT problem using nVidia CUDA framework

by Asim Munawar, Mohamed Wahib, Masaharu Munetomo & Kiyoshi Akama

Parallel evolution using multi-chromosome cartesian genetic programming

by James Alfred Walker, Katharina Völk, Stephen L. Smith & Julian Francis Miller

Genetic programming on graphics processing units

by Denis Robilliard, Virginie Marion-Poty & Cyril Fonlupt

Book Review: Natalio Krasnogor, Steve Gustafson, David A. Pelta, and Jose L. Verdegay (eds): Systems self-assembly: multidisciplinary snapshots

by Navneet Bhalla