Evolutionary Algorithms

• Application of Evolutionary Algorithms to various domains, especially for problems in Economics and Biology.
• Meta-Evolution - Evolving EAs.
• Comparative evaluation of biologically inspired mutation operators.

This algorithm belongs ideologically to that philosophical school that allows wisdom to emerge rather than trying to impose it,
that emulates nature rather than trying to control it,
and that seeks to make things simpler rather than more complex.

J. Kennedy and R. Eberhart on PSO

Links

• Evolutionary Computation Conferences
• Particle Swarm Optimization | Particle Swarm Central
• AAAI's Genetic Algorithms page
• Genetic Argonaut | Genomicron
• SIGEVO | GECCO 2010 | GECCO 2009
• The Santa Fe Institute
• Another collection of Genetic Algorithms links
• The Genetic Programming Notebook
• Intro to GAs
• The GA FAQ

People

• A.E. Eiben
• Zbigniew Michalewicz
• Darrell Whitley
• Kenneth A. De Jong
• Olivia Judson

Demos

• Genetic Algorithm Fish
• GA Jumping Man
• A letter to Charles Darwin
• Evolving a 2-wheeled vehicle
• A demo that uses a GA to form a circle out of a number of random x,y coordinates.
• A very nice intro/tutorial on Genetic Algorithms - includes applets.

Articles/Papers

• J. Kennedy and R. Eberhart's classic paper on Particle Swarm Optimization
• Breeding Race Cars to Win
• An Application of Genetic Algorithms to the Growth and Development of Musical Organisms by Gary Nelson, Oberlin College