More CL libs on Github

Recently I made available some GP code I had in Common Lisp (see previous post). Today I also put on my github account the library I did for Ant Colony Optimzation (cl-aco) and a few others like parsers for MKP and QAP, but also a very basic CFFI bindings for libLBFGS. Like before, these are … Continue reading More CL libs on Github

Best Paper Award at EuroGP 2012

Last week I was at EuroGP where I presented my latest paper “Automatic Design of Ant Algorithms with Grammatical Evolution” (pdf, slides) and it won the Best Paper Award! I am very happy with this distinction since EuroGP is the leading conference on Genetic Programming attended by the best researchers in the field. In this … Continue reading Best Paper Award at EuroGP 2012

EuroGP 2011 Best Paper Nomination

Just received an email with good news! The paper that I got accepted at EuroGP was nominated for Best Paper! The work that I started last year is starting to get some good feedback which is great :-) This paper describes the approach I have developed (in collaboration with Francisco B. Pereira) to evolve pheromone … Continue reading EuroGP 2011 Best Paper Nomination

PPSN 2010 and Evolving Ants

For the next days I will be attending PPSN 2010, in Krakow, Poland. I was here for the venue two years ago and it was a conference that I enjoyed very much. Mostly because of the model which is different from the standard ones (poster only format, absence of parallel sessions and a summary presentation … Continue reading PPSN 2010 and Evolving Ants