FOGA 2000 - Program

Program
Foundations of Genetic Algorithms Workshop
July 21-23, 2000
Charlottesville, VA


Friday, July 21
Breakfast 7:00 - 9:00

Session 1A - Invited Speaker  9:00 - 10:15 Friday, July 21

Can You Use a Population Size of a Million Million Million?
David H. Wood
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Delaware
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Paper Session 1B  10:45 - 12:00 Friday, July 21

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

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Paper Session 1C  1:30 - 2:45 Friday, July 21

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
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Paper Session 1D  3:15 - 4:30 Friday, July 21

Direct statistical estimation of GA landscape properties
Colin R. Reeves
Coventry University

Comparing population mean curves
Bart Naudts Ives Landrieu
University of Antwerpen
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Saturday, July 22
Breakfast 7:00 - 8:30
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Paper Session 2A  8:30 - 10:15 Saturday, July 22

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
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Paper Session 2B  10:45 - 12:00 Saturday, July 22

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
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Paper Session 2C  1:30 - 2:45 Saturday, July 22

Mathematical framework for a mutation-selection algorithm
Paul Albuquerque Christian Mazza
University of Geneva

Limiting distributions for mutation and recombination
William M. Spears
Artificial Intelligence Center NRL
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Paper Session 2D  3:15 - 4:30 Saturday, July 22

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
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Sunday, July 23
Breakfast 7:00 - 8:30
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Paper Session 3A  8:30 - 10:15 Sunday, July 23

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
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Session 3B  10:45 - 12:00 Sunday, July 23

Future of FOGA
Once and Future FOGA Chairs Panel