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NIGEL 2006 Part VI: Bacardit

Xavier — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:54:27 +0000

After coming back from GECCO I just uploaded the last of the NIGEL 2006 talks at LCS & GBML Central. This last talk was by Jaume Bacardit and GBML for protein structure prediction.

NIGEL 2006 Part V: Bernardó vs. Lanzi

Xavier — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:30:14 +0000

After the vacation break, two more NIGEL 2006 talks are available at LCS & GBML Central. This week Ester Bernardó presents how LCS can perform in the presence of class imbalance, whereas Lanzi continues his quest on computed predictions.

NIGEL 2006 Part IV: Llorà vs. Casillas

Xavier — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:20:02 +0000

Two more NIGEL 2006 talks are available at LCS & GBML Central. This week Xavier Llorà presents how linkage learning can be achieve in Pittsburgh LCS, whereas Jorge Casillas reviews his work using XCS and Fuzzy LCS.

NIGEL 2006 Part III: Butz vs. Barry

Xavier — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:38:05 +0000

NIGEL 2006 talks is available at LCS & GBML Central. This week Martin Butz review reviews the state of the union of XCS, where as Alwyn Barry introduces the theoretical framework for LCS that he and Jan Drugowitsch worked on.

LCS & GBML Central back to production

Xavier — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:33:49 +0000

LCS & GBML Central exploit has been fixed. The site is restored and back to fully functional. Please do not hesitate to ping me if you see something missing. Related posts: LCS & GBML Central Gets a New Home LCS & GBML Central under inspection LCSweb + GBML blog = LCS & GBML Central Related posts:

NIGEL 2006 Part II: Dasgupta vs. Booker

Xavier — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:08:38 +0000

The second weekly release of NIGEL 2006 talks is available at LCS & GBML Central. This week Dipankar Dasgupta reviews the negative selection algorithm, where as Lashon Booker travels in time to the past and future of learning classifier systems.

Transcoding NIGEL 2006 videos

Xavier — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:13:23 +0000

Last week Pier Luca Lanzi was visiting IlliGAL. Yesterday, before he left for Chicago, we went for one last brunch. He mentioned that he liked a lot the videos we shot during NIGEL 2006. Thinking about it we agreed would be useful to recover the videos and upload them into some of the usual video sharing site suspects. Currently they are hosted, for long term storage purposes, at NCSA’s web archive. I spent sometime retrieving them from the archive (they are pretty fat and encoded in wmv) and I stated transcoding it in m4a. My plan? Make them available via Vimeo and LCS & GBML Central. Also, I will be uploading the presentation slides to SlideShare and also make them available via LCS & GBML Central.

Update: The first two videos (Wilson and Goldberg) are already available at LCS & GBML Central.

Deadline extended for special issue on Metaheuristics for Large Scale Data Mining

Xavier — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:32:03 +0000

The deadline for the special issue on Metaheuristics for Large Scale Data Mining to be published by Springer’s Memetic Computing Journal has been extended till May 31, 2009. More information can be found in this post at LCS & GBML Central.

GECCO 2009 paper submission deadline extended till January 28

Xavier — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:05:19 +0000

Martin Pelikan just posted on the MEDAL and IlliGAL blogs that the GECCO 2009 paper submission deadline has been extended till January 28. Always, great news to finish polishing last minute changes :D It seems that the website is not yet updated, neither emails sent to the usual mailing lists. Just a matter or time I guess

And since I am talking about GECCO 2009, you may also want to take a look at the competitions announcement video that Pier Luca Lanzi put together below.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7cbgBOkn-s

On the road again for Internet2 and Bamboo

Xavier — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:19:12 +0000

Yesterday I just got to New Orleans for the Internet2 fall meeting. I was invited to give a talk about work we are doing on the SEASR project at NCSA. SEASR fosters collaboration through empowering scholars to share data and research in virtual work environments. The SEASR project is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The last part of the week I will be at San Francisco joining the Project Bamboo workshop, again representing the SEASR project seeking a better understanding of possible synergies.