CSCI 443/543
Evolutionary Computation

LINKS

Here are some links to web materials related to various topics in Evolutionary Computation and this course. This list is not exhaustive; there are piles of information out there.

• A brief introduction to evolutionary computation.
• Overheads (PDF) from an introduction to evolutionary computation.
• Some observations about writing papers in computer science.
• Suggestions about writing and presenting papers.
• More about writing for computer science.
• Some suggestions for giving presentations.
• The home page of the ACM special interest group on genetic and evolutionary computation: SIGEVO.
• An archive of links to information about evolutionary computation.
• The page of the 2009 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2009), July 8-12, 2009, Montreal, Canada.
• The page of the 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2009), May 18-21, Trondheim, Norway.
• A page about the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma (IPD) and an IPD contest held at CEC-2004.
• The home page of the Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL) at the University of Illinois. Many links.
• The GENITOR group at Colorado State.
• The home page of the Genetic Algorithms Research and Applications Group (GARAGe) at Michigan State.
• Slides for a thorough introduction to evolutionary computation by Colin Reeves.
• Roger Wainwright's page at the University of Tulsa. Many links.
• Genetic algorithms frequently asked questions (FAQ).
• A genetic algorithm tutorial by Enrique Alba and Carlos Cotta.
• A genetic algorithm tutorial by Marek Obitko.
• Course notes on "Micro-Evolution and Genetic Algorithms" by Adam Prügel-Bennett.
• An introduction to evolutionary computation by Ricardo Poli.
• A page with many links.
• The Second DIMACS Challenge page.
• Beasley's OR-Library.
• MP-TESTDATA: A collection of test data for various mathematical programming problems.
• The compendium of NP-hard problems of Crescenzi and Kann. Also available as an article here.
• Some benchmark instances of MAX CLIQUE, MAXIMUM INDEPENDENT SET, MAXIMUM VERTEX COVER, and VERTEX COLORING.
• John Koza's genetic programming page.
• A Java implementation of John Conway's Game of Life: A cellular automaton that illustrates how simple rules can give rise to complex behaviors.
• Another Game of Life demonstration.
• A third Game of Life demonstration.
• The Tierra page of Thomas Ray.
• Karl Sims' home page, which contains links to A-life and other animations.
• An article from The Atlantic Monthly by Jonathan Rauch about artificial societies. Note the link to movies of some of the simulations.