Making It To The Most Read Articles Lists in 2009

The Paper “Search, Neutral Evolution, and Mapping in Evolutionary Computing: A Case Study of Grammatical Evolution” Wilson, D.   Kaur, D.,  appeared in the July 2009 Top 10 Downloads of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computing ranked #1.
It also appeared (ranked #27) in the Top 100 Downloads of the entire IEEExplore site for July 2009!
Not bad!

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Is Neutral Evolution Useful for Evolutionary Computation? Part I

Based on publications, and responses from reviewers on the subject, it is evident that neutral evolution is a misused and misunderstood concept in evolutionary computation circles. I intend to dispel some of the confusion in this series of post based on some material from a journal paper by Dr. Kaur (my doctoral supervisor) and myself [...]

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Extending the Phenotype in Evolutionary Computing

In his very readable book “The Extended Phenotype“, Dawkins defined the “Extended Phenotype” as the effects of a gene when those effects are not regarded as being confined to the individual body in which the gene sits. He argues against the arbitrariness of limiting the applicability of phenotypes only to expressions of an organism’s genes [...]

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Search, Neutral Evolution and Mapping in Evolutionary Computing:2

Here is a pre-proof copy of my accepted paper: “Search, Neutral Evolution and Mapping in Evolutionary Computing: A Case Study of Grammatical Evolution”.
I would encourage you to read section X  (Analysis of related works) , to see its true implications.
I plan to do a series of posts on what this paper means for Evolutionary Computing, [...]

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Search, Neutral Evolution and Mapping in Evolutionary Computing: A Case Study of Grammatical Evolution

The above is the title of my paper that has been accepted by IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computing. My doctoral supervisor Dr Kaur is a coauthor of the paper.
Here is the abstract:
We present a new perspective of search in Evolutionary Computing (EC) by using a novel model for the analysis and visualization of genotype to [...]

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Some ways you can go wrong with Evolutionary Computing

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The second, feeling of his tusk,
Cried, “Ho! What have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me ’tis mighty clear
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear”.
by John Godfrey Saxe
The state of Evolutionary Computing is somewhat like the blind men’s observations in Saxe’s poem above. A practitioner’s opinion of what [...]

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