GECCO 2021 will run as pure online conference!
This year we witnessed immense progress in technologies that facilitate our virtual interactions and there are many interesting solutions that we can implement. Therefore, we are looking forward to a great conference, and the organizers' team is working hard to make GECCO'21 a great and original experience. We count on you all in helping us out at that.
We are proud to announce that Darrell Whitley was named an ACM fellow for technical and professional leadership in the field of genetic and evolutionary computation. Many congratulations to Darrell for this achievement. The accomplishment underpins the technologies that define the digital age and greatly impact our professional and personal lives. ACM Fellows comprise an elite group that represents less than 1% of the Association’s global membership.
press release 2019 ACM fellows
GECCO 2019 took place in Prague, July 13-17, 2019.
FOGA 2019 took place in Potsdam, Germany, August 26-29. 15 papers out of 31 submissions were presented, contributing to advancing our understanding of the working principles behind evolutionary algorithms and related randomized search heuristics.
Check the GECCO authorship network presented in Berlin by Gabriela Ochoa, Editor in Chief of GECCO 2017, and Editor in Chief of SIGEVO Newsletter.
Link to Open Access to all GECCO and FOGA proceedings since 2016 - unlimited, but from this web site only
Dateline: July 11, Philadelphia, USA.
At the 2012 GECCO conference, Humies 2012 judges awarded 3 medals and 2 citations of honorable mention among a field of 10 finalists. The judges commented that the high quality of the entrants as well as the diversity in the nature of their achievements taxed their decision making process.
Michael Dewey-Vogt, Stephanie Forrest, Claire Le Goues and Westley Weimer of the University of New Mexico and of the University of Virginia, USA won the Bronze Award in the 2012 Humies Competition.
They developed GenProg, a software tool that can detects and repair bugs automatically in C code using Genetic Programming. GenProg was able to repair more than half of 105 defects from 8 open-source programs totalling 5.1 millions lines of code.
Richard A.J. Woolley, Julian Stirling, Philip Moriarty, Natalio Krasnogor and Adrian Radocea of the University of Nottingham, UK won the Silver Award in the 2012 Humies Competition. A Cellular Genetic Algorithm has been successfully used to help the physicists during the tuning of their scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), the Noble prize winning invention that gives access to atom-scale images and manipulations. Not only does the GA save hours of tedious trial-and-error by the experts, but it also improves the quality of the resulting images.
There is a new board game called Yavalath grabbing the attention of the gaming world. While it has the simplicity of tic-tac-toe, Yavalath also possesses the complexity of much deeper games, and is ranked higher than popular games like Backgammon and Chinese Checkers in the BoardGameGeek database. What may be most interesting about Yavalath, though, is that a computer designed the game using standard genetic programming techniques.