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!

The Lizard And The Bird

No, it is not an ancient tale about human action under the style of a fable, but an invitation to follow at Twitter what happened at GECCO 2009. See this stuff here.

For more GECCO 2009 twittering, see those guys.

Per Aspera Ad Astra

Picture: cortesy of Juan Julián Merelo Guervós

I have learned from Martin Pelikan's blog that Professor Hans-Paul Schwefel will deliver a talk at GECCO 2009 named Failures as Stepping Stones to Success or "Per Aspera Ad Astra". It will be part of a major GECCO 2009 event: Learning From Failures in Evolutionary Computation workshop.

It's such an amazing initiative of organizers to hold a workshop like that, since researchers in general tend only to report their successes and, not so rarely, omit what may be qualified as "failure". How many wonderful ideas have not come from failures? Or, at least, have played the role of a pioneer starting?

Even though I will not be there (what a pity!!!), I can imagine what will be the meat and bones of Professor Schwefel's talk. Sure, I will not tell you, otherwise I would need to kill you... :)

For all those attending GECCO 2009 next summer, I would be very grateful if a good hearted soul could record a video of Professor Schwefel talk and upload it on YouTube or some video sharing service like that. :)

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Video Tutorial

Martin Pelikan has uploaded his nice tutorial upon Estimation of Distribution Algorithms, see it here. The tutorial was given at GECCO 2008.

GECCO 2008 Highlights

Nice GECCO 2008 overview from Epistasis blog author Jason Moore, see it here.

GECCO 2007 In Videos

Here you are nice videos upon the debate which had the presence of luminaries from biology in general, such as Richard Dawkins, Steve Jones, and Lewis Wolpert. The debate was chaired by Peter Bentley. See here.

Thanks to Xavier Llorà, from IlliGAL Blogging, for the link..

GECCO 2007 In Pictures

Here you are a nice link to the beautiful pictures taken by, I suppose, Juan Julián Merelo Guervós, see here.

Above and below pictures from London, thanks to Juan Julián Merelo Guervós. :)

The famous Picadilly Circus:

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

GECCO 2007 Blogging

It would be interesting to point to some blogs that are posting upon the GECCO 2007 event. It was held in London, England. So, as I am not bairrista (bairrista is some kind of a tacky insider :) ), let's see it!

Here you are some nice links reporting the event:

From Kephale's Blog:

GECCO, Day 1

GECCO, Day 2

GECCO, Day 3

GECCO, Days 4 & 5

GECCO Follow-Up.
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From Manuel Foerster's Blog:

First Night In London

Evo Blogger Meeting Around GECCO

GECCO Keynote Event

Last Night In London
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From Ickejuwie:

Icklejuwie
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From Juan Julián Merelo Guervós:

There is such a thing as a free lunch
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From Matake's Blog (in Japanese):

Collection Of Links Reporting GECCO 2007
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From the Geneura Team:

Geneura At GECOO
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