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     COLLOQUIUM OF THE COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE CENTER
       AND THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL AND DATA SCIENCES
                         (CSI 898-Sec 001)
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   Co-evolutionary Algorithms: A Useful Computational Abstraction?

                          Kenneth De Jong
  Department of Computer Science and Office of Research Computing 
             George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 

Interest in co‐evolutionary algorithms was triggered in part with 
Hillis’ 1990 paper describing his success in using one to evolve 
sorting networks.  Since then there have been heightened expectations 
for using this nature‐inspired technique to improve on the range and 
power of evolutionary algorithms for solving difficult computation 
problems. However, after more than two decades of exploring this 
promise, the results have been somewhat mixed.  

In this talk I summarize the progress made and the lessons learned 
with a goal of understanding how they are best used and identify a 
variety of interesting open issues that need to be explored in order 
to make further progress in this area.

                           October 19, 2015
                               4:30 pm
                      Exploratory Hall, room 3301 
                           Fairfax Campus

Refreshments will be served at 4:15 PM.
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