COSC 5P71 Seminar Schedule and Topics

Seminars are about 25-30 minutes in length, with additional time for questions.

Schedule

• Tuesday November 29
• Genetic Image Network for Image Classification" (Arash Iranzad). Papers.
• GP for Automated Software Repair (Mahdi Oraei). Papers.
• Thursday December 1
• Disciplus/AIM GP (Stephen Asobiela)
• GP and GPUs (Manas Ghosh)

Topics

This is a list of ideas for seminar topics.
You can select from these, or submit your own.
Please let me know your final topic once you know it.

• Advanced evolution ideas (wrt genetic programming)
  • parallelism
  • niching and speciation
  • Multiobjective
  • Hybrid evolution (eg. memetic algorithms)
  • GAs with diploidy, dominance
  • Mutation and GP
  • Lamarckian evolution
  • The Baldwin Effect
  • Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDA) for GP

• Genetic programming
  • linear encoding
  • cellular encoding
  • machine language
  • grammatical
  • typed
  • parallel
  • distributed
  • co-evolution and parasites
  • visualization and interfaces
  • GPUs

• Misc
  • Tree initialization
  • Effects of random number generator quality on GP
  • Comparing GP with other paradigms (search, neural networks, ...)

• Applications
  • Software engineering
  • Computer science
  • Artificial Life (Alife)
  • Evolutionary design
  • Scientific and engineering applications
  • Bioinformatics
  • Music
  • Art and graphics
  • Robotics

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