In Case it's of Interest

[Frank Wimberly]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon Woodside" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 1:32 PM
Subject: CALD Seminar Scheduled - 2/11/2004

> CALD Seminar:
>
> Date: February 11, 2004
> Where: Wean Hall 4623
> Time: 2:00pm-3:30pm
>
> Speaker:  Ryszard S. Michalski, George Mason University
> Title: Non-Darwinian Evolutionary Computation:  Guiding Evolution by
> Machine Learning
>
> Abstract:
> The field of evolutionary computation has drawn inspiration from Darwinian
> evolution model, in which species adapt to the environment through random
> variations and survival of the fittest. This type of evolutionary
> computation has found wide applications, but suffers from low efficiency.
> This talk will present a form of non-Darwinian evolutionary computation,
> called Learnable Evolution Model or LEM, which attempts to model an
> intellectual evolution, an evolution of human ideas, designs, artifacts,
> organizations, etc.  Specifically, LEM applies machine learning to guide

an
> evolutionary process by creating hypotheses differentiating high and low
> performance solutions, and then applying the hypotheses to generate new
> populations. In pilot studies on the application of LEM to a range of
> function optimization problems, LEM outperformed Darwinian-type algorithms
> by two or more orders of magnitude in terms of the evolution length
(number
> of fitness evaluations). If time permits, a demo of a natural induction
> program employed in LEM will be presented.
>
>
> For appointments:  please contact Sharon Woodside - [hidden email]
>
> http://www.mli.gmu.edu/michalski
>

[Keith Hunter]

Thanks Frank.  That's another one I didn't hear about
locally
Keith

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon Woodside" <[hidden email]>
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Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 1:32 PM
Subject: CALD Seminar Scheduled - 2/11/2004


> CALD Seminar:
>
> Date: February 11, 2004
> Where: Wean Hall 4623
> Time: 2:00pm-3:30pm
>
> Speaker:  Ryszard S. Michalski, George Mason University
> Title: Non-Darwinian Evolutionary Computation:  Guiding
Evolution by
> Machine Learning
>
> Abstract:
> The field of evolutionary computation has drawn
inspiration from Darwinian
> evolution model, in which species adapt to the environment
through random
> variations and survival of the fittest. This type of
evolutionary
> computation has found wide applications, but suffers from
low efficiency.
> This talk will present a form of non-Darwinian
evolutionary computation,
> called Learnable Evolution Model or LEM, which attempts to
model an
> intellectual evolution, an evolution of human ideas,
designs, artifacts,
> organizations, etc.  Specifically, LEM applies machine
learning to guide
an
> evolutionary process by creating hypotheses
differentiating high and low
> performance solutions, and then applying the hypotheses to
generate new
> populations. In pilot studies on the application of LEM to
a range of
> function optimization problems, LEM outperformed
Darwinian-type algorithms
> by two or more orders of magnitude in terms of the
evolution length
(number
> of fitness evaluations). If time permits, a demo of a
natural induction
> program employed in LEM will be presented.
>
>
> For appointments:  please contact Sharon Woodside -
[hidden email]
>
> http://www.mli.gmu.edu/michalski
>


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[Frank Wimberly]

After I forwarded the CALD (Center for Automated Learning and Discovery)
seminar announcement it occurred to me that a number of people who have
joined the FRIAM list recently may not know what it's about.

CALD is at Carnegie Mellon.  I am on their mailing list.  Sometimes it seems
to me that their seminars would interest FRIAM members.  Although only one
FRIAMer is know to be in Pittsburgh (Keith), there are almost always web
accessible versions of presentations, which can usually be found easily.

Frank
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>
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