| Thursday July 20th |
Friday July 21st |
Saturday July 22nd |
Sunday July 23rd |
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| 7:00 | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | |
| 8:30 | Paper Session 2A | Paper Session 3A | ||
| 9:00 | Session 1A Invited Speaker |
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| 10:15 | break | break | break | |
| 10:45 | Paper Session 1B | Paper Session 2B | Session 3B Once and Future FOGA | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | |
| 1:30 | Paper Session 1C | Paper Session 2C | FOGA adjourns | |
| Monticello Tour | ||||
| 2:45 | break | break | ||
| 3:15 | Paper Session 1D | Session 2D Future Research Directions | ||
| 4:30 | ||||
| 5:00 | Registration Welcome Reception |
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| 7:00 | Banquet | |||
| Can You Use a Population Size of a Million Million Million? | |||
| David H. Wood | Department of Computer and Information Sciences | University of Delaware | |
| Overcoming fitness barriers in multi-modal search spaces | |||
| M. Oates | D. Corne | R. Watson | British Telecom |
| Niches in NK-landscapes | |||
| Keith Mathias | Larry J. Eshelman | J. David Schaffer | Philips Research |
| New methods for tunable, random landscapes | |||
| R.E. Smith | J.E. Smith | University of The West of England | |
| Analysis of recombinative algorithms on a non-separable building-block problem | |||
| Richard A. Watson | Brandeis University | ||
| Direct statistical estimation of GA landscape properties | |||
| Colin R. Reeves | Coventry University | ||
| Comparing population mean curves | |||
| Bart Naudts | Ives Landrieu | University of Antwerpen | |
| Local performance of the (m/mI,L)-ES in a noisy environment | |||
| Dirk V. Arnold | Hans-Georg Beyer | University of Dortmund | |
| Recursive conditional schema theorem convergence and population sizing in genetic algorithms | |||
| Riccardo Poli | University of Birmingham | ||
| Towards a theory of strong overgeneral classifiers | |||
| Tim Kovacs | University of Birmingham | ||
| Evolutionary optimization through PAC learning | |||
| Forbes J. Burkowski | University of Waterloo | ||
| Continuous dynamical system models of steady-state genetic algorithms | |||
| Alden H. Wright | Jonathan E. Rowe | University of Montana | |
| Mathematical framework for a mutation-selection algorithm | |||
| Paul Albuquerque | Christian Mazza | University of Geneva | |
| Limiting distributions for mutation and recombination | |||
| William M. Spears | AIC NRL | ||
| The mixing rate of different crossover operators | |||
| Adam Prugel-Bennett | University of Southampton | ||
| Future Research Directions | |||
| FOGA Community Discussion | Discussion leader: Ken DeJong | George Mason University | |
| Dynamic parameter control in simple evolutionary algorithms | |||
| Stefan Droste | Thomas Jansen | Ingo Wegener | University of Dortmund |
| High precision gray codes and convergence | |||
| Darrell Whitley | Larura Barbulescu | Jean-Paul Watson | Colorado State University |
| Burden and benefits of redundancy | |||
| Karsten Weicker | Nicole Weicker | University of Stuttgart | |
| Future of FOGA | |||
| Once and Future FOGA Chairs | Panel | ||