COSC 5P71 Seminar Schedule and Topics

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

Schedule

• Thursday November 13
  • Diversity (Corrado Coia)
  • Bloat Reduction (Robert Flack)
• Tuesday November 18
  • Ant Colony Programming (Andrew Runka)
  • Social Behaviors, Machine Learning, and GP (Pascal Comte)
• Thursday November 20
  • Diversity II (Corrado Coia)
  • Bloat Reduction II (Robert Flack)
• Tuesday November 25
  • PS3 and Linear GP (Pascal Comte)
  • Applications of Co-evolutionary GP for Games (Andrew Runka)

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.

• Genetic algorithms
  • Following referenced in [Peter J Bentley 1999, pp.12-13]
  • parallel GAs
  • GAs with niching and speciation
  • Messy GA (mGA)
  • Multiobjective GAs
  • Hybrid GAs (eg. memetic algorithms)
  • Structured GA's
  • GAs with diplody and dominance
  • Mutation-driven GA's
  • GA's with genetic engineering
  • Injection Island GA's

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

• Others, misc
  • More details about ES, EP
  • Lamarckian evolution
  • Other hybrid evolutionary methodologies.
  • Effects of random number generator quality on GA, GP
  • Comparing evolutionary computation with other paradigms (search, neural networks, ...)

• Natural evolution
  • Similarities and differences between natural and artificial evolution
  • The Baldwin Effect
  • articles and books by: Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, others

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

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