COSC 4P82 Seminar Schedule and Topics

Seminars are about XXX minutes in length, with a few minutes for questions.
All seminars should be done in groups of 2.

To reserve your time and topic, please send me the title and PDF's of reference material(s) of your seminar.

Local access to seminar presentations.

Schedule

Topics

Here is a very broad list of research areas to help you find a seminar topic.
Most are too general to be seminar topics, and so you will need to find one specific research paper or topic within them.
Please run your topic by me before preparing for it.
Also check out the GP Bibliography for GP papers in these and other topic areas.

Please ensure that your topic involves genetic programming (and not genetic algorithms or other evolutionary algorithm).

• Genetic programming and...
  • Parallelism
  • Distributed
  • Niching and speciation
  • Multiobjective
  • Diversity search, novelty search.
  • Hybrid evolution (eg. memetic algorithms)
  • GPs with diploidy, dominance
  • Mutation and GP
  • Lamarckian evolution
  • The Baldwin Effect
  • Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDA) for GP
  • Deep learning and evolution.
  • Linear encoding
  • Cellular encoding
  • Machine language
  • Cartesian genetic programming
  • Semantic GP
  • Grammatical
  • Bloat control
  • Co-evolution and parasites
  • Visualization and interfaces
  • GPUs
  • Landscape analysis
  • Tree initialization
  • Effects of random number generator quality on GP
  • Comparing GP with other paradigms (search, neural networks, ...)
  • Advanced training strategies
  • Multi-classification

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

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