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David Davis (Tica Associates)
Ken De Jong (George Mason Univ.)
Donald Truhlar (University of Minnesota)
Michael Vose (Univ. of Tennessee)
Daryl Whitely (Colorado State Univ.)
Co-sponsored by the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute
This workshop will bring together key researchers for a concentrated discussion of theory and applications of evolutionary algorithms, including genetic algorithms, evolution strategies and evolutionary programming. The workshop will be organized around a limited number of plenary lectures with generous blocks of time for interactive discussion sessions.
The workshop will begin with a series of expository talks that overview the foundations of these fields and define critical issues to be discussed during the workshop. A major goal is to use discussion time to communicate recent research results and to bridge the gap between theory and applications. The workshop will also assess the state of the current mathematical underpinning of the field and reconcile some of the diverse theoretical perspectives of the various participants. The workshop will emphasize high-performance computing using parallel evolutionary algorithms and hybrid algorithms in critical state-of-the-art applications.
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To view abstracts, click on the talk's title. Text-only version of schedule
| SCHEDULE for MONDAY, OCTOBER 21 | ||
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| 9:00 am | Registration and Coffee | Reception Room, EE/CS 3-176 |
| 9:15 am | A.Friedman, R.Gulliver, D.Whitley | Welcome and Orientation |
| 9:30 am | Daryl Whitley, Colorado State University |
An Overview of Genetic Algorithms |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
| 11:00 am | Hans-Paul Schwefel, University of Dortmund |
Evolutionary algorithms from an evolution strategy perspective: Part I |
| 2:00 pm | David Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc. |
An Overview of Evolutionary Programming and its Properties |
| 4:00 pm | IMA Tea (and more!) | Vincent Hall 502 (The IMA Lounge) |
| SCHEDULE for TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 | ||
| 9:15 am | Coffee | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
| 9:30 am | Michael D. Vose, University of Tennessee |
What Are Genetic Algorithms? A mathematical perspective |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
| 11:00 am | Nicholas Radcliffe, Quadstone Ltd. |
To be announced |
| 2:00 pm | David Goldberg, University of Illinois-Urbana |
From Competence to Efficiency: A Tale of Genetic Algorithm Progress |
| 3:30 pm | Thomas Bäck, Leiden University/Informatik Centrum Dortmund |
Evolutionary algorithms from an evolution strategy perspective: Part II |
| SCHEDULE for WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 | ||
| 9:15 am | Coffee | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
| 9:30 am | John Holland, University of Michigan |
To be announced |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
| 11:00 am | Kenneth De Jong, George Mason University |
Parallel and Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms |
| 2:00 pm | David Levine, Boeing |
Some Parallel Genetic Algorithm Applications |
| 3:00--3:30 | Shunji Matsumoto, Fujitsu Limited |
Applications of genetic algorithms in scheduling problems |
| SCHEDULE for THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 | ||
| 9:15 am | Coffee | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
| 9:30 am | Lawrence David Davis, Tica Technologies, Inc. |
Hybrid Genetic Algorithms for Optimization |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
| 11:00 am | Emanuel Falkenauer, Free University of Brussels |
Applying Genetic Algorithms to Real-world Problems |
| 2:00 pm | Peter Ross, University of Edinburgh |
Applications of Genetic Algorithms |
| 6:00 pm | Workshop Dinner | Campus Club, 4th Floor Coffman Union |
| SCHEDULE for FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 | ||
| 9:15 am | Coffee | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
| 9:30 am | Rogene M. Eichler West, University of Minnesota |
The Search for Control Parameters of a Nonlinear Partial Differential... |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
| 11:15 am | Steven J. Weinstein, Eastman Kodak Company |
Joint talk with the IMA Seminar on Industrial Problems: Modeling Techniques for Computation of Coating Flows |
| 2:00 pm | Heinz Mühlenbein, GMD Schloß Birlinghoven |
Parallelism in evolution, its computer implementation and its theoretical analysis |
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