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Title

Representation in Evolutionary Computation

Speaker

Prof. Daniel Ashlock
Department of Mathematics and Statistic
University of Guelph, Canada

Day and Time Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. EDT (or GMT-5)  

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Abstract

Evolutionary computation has become a family of mature problem-solving techniques in the past decade. Correctly tuning the variation operators that drive search within an evolutionary algorithm is becoming a science and early enthusiasm is transforming into a mature understanding of the benefits and limits of evolutionary techniques. Of the design parameters for these algorithms, representation is perhaps the most powerful and least explored. This talk will introduce the issue of representation, demonstrate that can have an incredible impact on performance, and catalog a number of representations. A technique for classifying both evolutionary computation problems and representation will be outlined.

Biography Daniel Ashlock is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Guelph. A Senior Member of the IEEE, he serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, the IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, The ACM/IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Biosystems. Dr. Ashlock has over 170 peer reviewed scientific publications in evolutionary computation, bioinformatics, and pure mathematics. The core of his research is in representation and its application to both theory and the solution of applied problems. He has twice chaired the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and has been on the organizing committee of many international conference including the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, and the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence.

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