EEBIC group

1996 Meetings

  • Jan 18, 1996: Summary and discussion on John Holland's new book on Complex Adaptive Systems (CASs) entitled "Hidden Order: How Adaption Builds Complexity", Addison Wesley, Jul 1995, 18.95 pounds, hard cover, 185 pages,....
  • Jan 25, 1996: Talk by Axel Grossmann on "Neural Networks and Permanent Learning: Modelling of a Permanently Learning Connectionist System Using Constructive Networks".
  • Feb 1, 1996: Talk by Stefano Cagnoni, University of Florence, on "Genetic algorithms for the design of optimum detectors in medical signal and image processing".
  • Feb 8, 1996: Short report on the problems encountered by some members of the group in on-going research on hybrid classifier systems, followed by a brainstorming session on "Co-evolution in classifier systems: relations between representation and reinforcement learning".
  • Feb 15, 1996: Talk by Manfred Kerber on "Synergetics - the secrets of nature's success".
  • Feb 22, 1996: Talk by Emmet Spier (Zoology Dept, Oxford) entitled "What to do next...? Applying Motivation Based Control Systems to Simulated and Real Robots".
  • Feb 29, 1996: Talk by Riccardo Poli and Brian Logan entitled "Evolutionary Computation Cookbook: Recipes for Designing New Algorithms".
  • March 7, 1996: Discussion on one of the papers presented at the Second Electronic Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Japan.
  • March 14, 1996: Discussion on epistasis.
  • March 21, 1996: Discussion on the paper by Richard Dawkins entitled "The Evolution of Evolvability", Artificial Life, Ed. C. Langton, Addison-Wesley, 1988.
  • April 25, 1996: Discussion on the paper entitled "No Free Lunch Theorems for Search" by David H. Wolpert and William G. Macready, Santa Fe Institute. The paper is available here.
  • May 9, 1996: Talk by Andy Pryke on his work on Data Mining.
  • May 16, 1996: Talk by Riccardo Poli on his work on Parallel Distributed Genetic Programming.
  • May 30, 1996: Discussion of the paper entitled "A Hierarchical Classifier System Implementing a Motivationally Autonomous Animat" by Jean-Yves Donnart and Jean-Arcady Meyer.
  • 25 November, 1996: Brian Logan, Route Planning

  • 2 December, 1996: Chris Complin, Darwinian algorithms Abstracting the Darwinian process from biology, a brief discussion of emergent properties, the nature of better rather than best, and some of the interesting properties of the Darwinian algorithm. Finally, how this work fits in with the group work: that is, how it applies to the mind.

  • 9 December, 1996: Genetic Programming: The Movie - A videotape providing a general introduction to genetic programming and a visualization of actual computer runs for many of the problems discussed in John R. Koza and James P. Rice's book Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection

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