Tuesday
19 Genetic Programming with Smalltalk Adam's Mark Hotel
Plaza Court 3
 
This workshop is intended to provide a forum for detailed discussions on the issues of using Smalltalk to develop Evolutionary systems using Genetic Algorithms. Significant focus will be given towards the development and use of Genetic Algorithms in Decision Support systems in Financial and Defense problem domains. All participants are expected to contribute at minimum one information report (no more than two pages) describing either a Fitness function or Crossover mechanism of personal interest. The Workshop organizers will coordinate the distribution of reports to achieve as broad of diversity as possible. Participants are also expected to have at extensive experience in systems development using one or more OO languages.

Specific Issues to be Addressed:

  • Overview of the present state of GA usage in public and private sector research.
  • Presentation of reports (based on actual experience) detailing the archetypes of fitness functions for several different problem domains. After presentation, these archetypes will be discussed by the workshop group and their similarities and contrasts reviewed.
  • Presentation of reports (based on actual participant experience) discussing the crossover mechanisms used for the previously discussed fitness functions. After presentation, particular emphasis will be given to discussing not only the differences of the crossovers but the detailed mechanics of their implementation.

Organizers:

Mr. William Cole, JumpStart Systems Inc.
Email: bcole@jmpstart.com

Mr. Art Long, GRC International

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