I'm researching adaptive genetic algorithms.

• What makes a good adaptive rule-set for GA parameters control?
• What GA metrics are best?
• How and when doe it outperform a traditional GA?
• What do existing dynamic systems models of GAs tell us?
• How do they perform on HP-Hard & NP-Complete problems?

My Master's Degree research was on Fuzzy Adaptive Genetic Algorithms & Cellular Automata

Links

• GALib - C++ library for GAs
• Other GA Software
  • Nice List
  • GAs and the AI Depot
• Test Functions
  • Spears' GA Test Functions
  • Spears' GA Test Function Generators
  • Global Optimization Test Problems
  • 2nd International Contest on Evolutionary Optimization (ICEO)
  • Global Search
  • Handbook of Test Problems in Local and Global Optimization
• EvCA Group at The Santa Fe Institute

GA Conferences & Meetings

• GECCO 2004 - Seattle
• CEC 2004 - Portland
• Dagstuhl GA Theory Meeting
• FOGA 2004/2005?????

People in GA Theory - Most of this list has touched Adaptive GA Theory

• Dr. Thomas Jansen, University of Dortmund
• Dr. Ingo Wegener, University of Dortmund
• Dr. Stefan Droste, University of Dortmund
• Dr. Hans-Georg Beyer, University of Dortmund
• Dr. Gunter Rudolph, University of Dortmund
• Dr. Jon Rowe, University of Birmingham
• Dr. Jon Rowe, University of Birmingham
• Dr. Aldel Wright, University of Montana
• Dr. Kalyanmoy Deb, Indian Inst. of Technology - Kanpur
• Dr. Garrison W. Greenwood, Portland State University
• Alexandru Agapie, Centre for Mathematical Statistics - Romania
• Dr. A.E. Eiben, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Xin Yao
• Yong Gao

People in Adaptive GAs with recent publications.. other of interest

• Dr. Jim Smith, University of the West of England
• Dr. Terence Fogarty, South Bank University
• Dr. Robert Hinterding, Victoria University of Technology - Australia
• Erik van Nimwegen

What I research at RightNow Technologies

• Text Clustering and Classification
• Search Engine Software
• Natural Language Processing
• Reinforcement Learning
• Swarm Intelligence