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RECOMB
2006
Springer
16 years 3 days ago
Inferring Gene Orders from Gene Maps Using the Breakpoint Distance
Abstract. Preliminary to most comparative genomics studies is the annotation of chromosomes as ordered sequences of genes. Unfortunately, different genetic mapping techniques usual...
Guillaume Blin, Eric Blais, Pierre Guillon, Mathie...
GECCO
2005
Springer
136views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
15 years 5 months ago
Preventing overfitting in GP with canary functions
Overfitting is a fundamental problem of most machine learning techniques, including genetic programming (GP). Canary functions have been introduced in the literature as a concept ...
Nate Foreman, Matthew P. Evett
GECCO
2006
Springer
143views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Hybrid search for cardinality constrained portfolio optimization
In this paper, we describe how a genetic algorithm approach added to a simulated annealing (SA) process offers a better alternative to find the mean variance frontier in the portf...
Miguel A. Gomez, Carmen X. Flores, Maria A. Osorio
CF
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Morphogenesis as an amorphous computation
In this paper, we present a programming language viewpoint for morphogenesis, the process of shape formation during embryological development. Specifically, we model morphogenesi...
Arnab Bhattacharyya
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
143views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Test-driven learning in early programming courses
Coercing new programmers to adopt disciplined development practices such as thorough unit testing is a challenging endeavor. Test-driven development (TDD) has been proposed as a s...
David Janzen, Hossein Saiedian