Xavier Llorà » discus project http://www.xavierllora.net A notebook on data-intensive computing, genetics-based machine learning & more. Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:39:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 ICEIS 2008: Blogging summary and final strings http://www.xavierllora.net/2008/06/18/iceis-2008-blogging-summary-and-final-strings/ http://www.xavierllora.net/2008/06/18/iceis-2008-blogging-summary-and-final-strings/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:28:37 +0000 Xavier http://www.xavierllora.net/?p=250
  • ICEIS 2008: Final sprint and Ricardo Baeza-Yates
  • ICEIS 2008: Blogging from Barcelona (Friday Morning)
  • ICEIS 2008: Jorge Cardoso keynote speech
    • ]]>     If you are looking for a list of the related blogging done during ICEIS 2008 just follow this link. During Sunday morning I run into Angel A. Juan, an assistant professor at Open University of Catalonia (UOC), interested on analyzing online teaching efforts and how tools to assist professors monitoring students performance on online media. I visited him yesterday at his office and we got and interesting exchange of ideas. Most of them revolved around the work we have conducted under the DISCUS project, and how similar is our efforts on marketing focus groups and their online teaching environment. His group, Distributed, Parallel and Collaborative Systems, was also interested on the work done under the SEASR project, mostly focusing on the Meadre infrastructure for data-intensive flow computing we are getting close to release.

     

    Related posts:

    1. ICEIS 2008: Final sprint and Ricardo Baeza-Yates
    2. ICEIS 2008: Blogging from Barcelona (Friday Morning)
    3. ICEIS 2008: Jorge Cardoso keynote speech

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  • Analyzing active interactive genetic algorithms using visual analytics
  • Toward routine billion-variable optimization using genetic algorithms
  • Google Notebook
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    Interesting twist using Google Analytics to do site optimization. The interesting part is the shift of mentality. Instead of scratching your head going for the best, why not put a bunch out there and using as a row data for the next generation. Sounds familiar?

    Yes, they will not mention it, but it heavily uses a simple evolutionary model. Using they words: you start with a basic set of variations, then you measure, oh you may want to try another set of variants based on the best ones. Yes, definitely evolutionary-based flavor. After going over the presentation, you will be wondering why they do not called interactive genetic algorithm? Well, I do not have the answer, but what I can say is that process can be modeled using an interactive genetic algorithm. The DISCUS project has shown that for the last five years. An introductory paper about how interactive genetic algorithms can help with such kind of modeling can be found here.

    Related posts:

    1. Analyzing active interactive genetic algorithms using visual analytics
    2. Toward routine billion-variable optimization using genetic algorithms
    3. Google Notebook

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