Genetic Argonaut Has Got Its First Citation

That's it, my fellow readers! This blog has got its first citation in an academic paper. See the citation here.

The paper is entitled "A comparison of selection, recombination, and mutation parameter importance over a set of fifteen optimization tasks". The paper is in the GECCO 2009 Proceedings

If you would like to cite this blog, feel free to do it!

Thank you so much for the authors who cited Genetic Argonaut!

Genetic Argonaut At Twitter

I have decided to follow the last Internet fad and create a twitter account for this blog. @geneticargonaut.

Some other evolutionary computation guys are already there and I think I could not miss the party. :)

See you there!

GECCO 2007 - Personal Summaries (Updated)

Our old blog friend, Julian Togelius, has written a personal summary upon the GECCO 2007 event, see here. The same was done by Juan Julián Merelo Guervós, who also attended the event, see here. There is also the nice report by David, see here.

Togelius emphasizes the lack of suitable room and the relative "long distance" among the places where presentations were being held. Let alone the comparison he does between the previous IEEE evolutionary computation/A.I. events and GECCO 2007. By the way, he says that he does not want to lose contact with both sides of conferences.

Merelo Guervós points to some drawbacks he had while in London to attend the event and the lack of organization on basic issues, such as lunch place, small space to put posters, and unsuitable computer facilities. He does a bitter conclusion upon the subject.

David report is a mix of, let's say, tour, gastronomic gathering and... scientific expedition! His summary is a tour around so many subjects on GECCO 2007, from evolutionary art to naval evolutionary optimization - which is his own research issue. He accomplishes his posting comparing his high schoool days and the nowadays conference in which he is involved. It's a nice summary!

By the way, as I do not appreciate bairrismos (bairrismo is a kind of a tacky insider atitude), and as those two summaries are not the only ones, I would suggest the reader to see the previous posting upon the same subject, please, follow the link below:

GECCO 2007 Blogging