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          DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
            COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY

                    BARNEY'S
          MONDAY AFTERNOON CLUB SEMINAR

	      Speaker:	Wayne Pullan
			University of Colorado
			Boulder, CO

		 Date:	March 25, 1998
			NOTE:  WEDNESDAY

		 Time:	4:00-5:00 p.m.
		Place:	100 USC

	 Refreshments:  following the talk

		 Host:	Carolyn Schauble
	       e-mail:  schauble@cs.colostate.edu

    APPLYING GENETIC ALGORITHMS TO MOLECULAR
             ARCHITECTURE PROBLEMS

 Genetic algorithms are a global optimization technique 
 that has been successfully applied to a wide variety 
 of optimization problems.  However, they tend to be very 
 slow and normally require problem specific modifications
 to accelerate convergence to the global optimum. 

 This seminar will describe a number of extensions to the 
 basic genetic algorithm which considerably improved its 
 performance when applied to molecular architecture opti-
 mization problems.  These extensions included the use of  
 a local optimizer and the implementation of phenotype 
 crossover and mutation operators.


The BMAC seminar schedule can be found by clicking on the 
"Upcoming Events" button on the Computer Science 
Department's web page at http://www.cs.colostate.edu/