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Evolutionary Algorithms

Workshop Schedule

October 21-25, 1996

To view abstracts, click on the talk's title.


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              	   	   Schedule for Monday, October 21
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9:00 am         Registration and Coffee
      Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
      

9:15 am         Welcome and Orientation
      A.Friedman, R.Gulliver, D.Whitley
      

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)


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                     Schedule for Tuesday, October 22
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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
      

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             	      Schedule for Wednesday, October 23
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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
      
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        	        Schedule for Thursday, October 24
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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
      

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                      Schedule for Friday, October 25
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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 
      Equation: The Good News, the Bad News, and a Success Story
      

10:30 am        Coffee Break
      Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
      

            Joint talk with the IMA Seminar on Industrial Problems
      

11:15 am        Steven J. Weinstein     Eastman Kodak Company
      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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